Word: nuns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many American nuns have been able to update their life-styles without leaving their orders. Perhaps the most successful are the Sisters of Loretto. Under the leadership of their former mother general, Sister Luke Tobin (the only American nun to attend Vatican II), the Loretto community became the prototype for renewal in American sisterhoods. The Loretto nuns were among the first in the U.S. to modernize their convent schedule and dress-the habit is often exchanged for the civilian garb appropriate to their work-and branch out into professions other than the teaching, nursing or running of orphanages...
...Among college-educated women, the problem is particularly difficult for female liberal arts graduates (sometimes known as FLAGS), who often have little in the way of easily marketable skills. After years of confident supremacy in the kitchen, they find themselves in a new and often hostile world, like a nun who has recently left the convent...
TEACHING. In elementary education, 85% of the schoolteachers are women, but only 21% of the principals. In high schools, the percentage of female principals drops to 3%. And if a woman wishes to become a college president, she is advised to become a nun: almost all of the meager 1% who make it are heads of Catholic institutions. In 1970, women constituted 20% of college and university faculties: 33% of the instructors were women, 20% of the assistant professors, 15% of the associate professors and 9% of the full professors. At Harvard, where women make up about...
...most tantalizing metaphors, works of art, philosophical arguments. Last summer my boss, a journalist, described America's radical movement as a rape by disturbing forces to which the country would now for ever be reluctantly indebted for its arousal. This provoked an irate and speedy reaction from a nun, who began her letter: "Perhaps it's just journalism...
...conspiring to blow up the heating systems in Government buildings in Washington, destroy draft records in several cities, and kidnap Henry Kissinger to use as a hostage until their demands to end the Viet Nam War were met. The other defendants are: Sister Elizabeth McAlister, 32, an intense, intelligent nun of the order of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary; Mary Cain Scoblick, 33, a former nun, and her husband, Anthony, a priest; Eqbal Ahmad, 41, a fellow at the Adlai Stevenson Institute of International Affairs in Chicago; and Baltimore Ghetto Priests Neil McLaughlin, 31, and Joseph Wenderoth...