Word: nuns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Edited by Michael Demarest, TIME'S Christmas cover was an especially satisfying assignment for those who worked on it. Researcher Clare Mead, before coming to TIME, taught high school in Texas as a Dominican nun. Researcher Margaret Mary Bach, a former chairman of the philosophy department at Marymount College, Tarrytown, N.Y., was a member in the order of the Sacred Heart of Mary. Writer Mayo Mohs often reported on religion from our Los Angeles bureau before coming to New York in 1966, and contributed to the chapter "Heaven and Hell" in TIME-LIFE'S book Can Christianity Survive...
Liberation seems to require the secluded and self denying life of a nun. But the withdrawal is necessary only temporarily, until women strengthen themselves individually. As individuals, they should concentrate on liberating the "female principle" in themselves. Roxanne Dunbar explains...
...said with childlike delight. "From little old ladies from Pasadena to Madison Avenue types who pretend to have missed their train to Wall Street types who examine the hardware to the hippies who come about ten o'clock at night. We've had two rabbis, a priest, and a nun...
Many of the episodes-and actors -are charged with a peculiar magic that dilates space and annihilates time. Centuries collide; the imagined becomes surreal, as when Jean daydreams of the Pope's assassination-and the shot is clearly heard by a passerby. Or when a nun's self-sacrifice becomes actual crucifixion. But where he should use a No. 3 paintbrush, Buñuel too often employs a palette knife. What is intended as subtle Human Comedy becomes broadly laughable, as when Jesus and his disciples run through the woods in chromo-colored sequences, or when Mary miraculously...
...back to the old country to make a film, all expenses paid. Biting the handout that fed him, Buñuel created Viridiana, a movie with the inexorable rhythm of a time bomb. Vatican and Franco partisans needed only one look at the scene in which a nun is raped by a beggar; Viridiana was swiftly disowned...