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...every silver lining has its cloud, and Sister Smile's is The Singing Nun, a chromo-colored, semifictional biography starring Debbie Reynolds in the title role...
...Singing Nun. Soeur Sourire-Sister Smile-was what she called her self, that serene Belgian nun who two years ago sang the affectedly unaffected song, Dominique, that made her an Ed Sullivan celebrity and brought windfall wealth to her Dominican community...
Died. Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, 76, leading Russian poetess for three generations; after a long illness; in Moscow. Bitterly denounced during a Stalinist purge of 1946 as a decadent "half nun and half prostitute," she nevertheless wrote such finely chiseled, romantic and often mystical verse on love and faith that the Kremlin allowed her to publish again in the '50s and granted her the almost unheard-of privilege of a religious funeral though, as reflected in Requiem (1963), she had never forgiven the harsh Stalin era, when "only dead men smiled, glad to be at rest...
Conversely, the Rev. Walter Brueggemann of Missouri's Eden Theological Seminary, a United Church of Christ minister, teaches Old Testament to nuns and laywomen studying theology at Roman Catholic Webster College near St. Louis, and an Episcopal priest, the Rev. Donald Winslow, is teaching early church history at Weston College, the Jesuit seminary near Boston. On the student level, seminaries are frequently nondenominational in fact, if not quite yet in name. Harvard's divinity school currently has 14 Catholic students, while Union has 17-including several priests and a nun. Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati has 28 Protestant...
...fact, this is the first article I've ever read in a Harvard Review that is just plain fun reading, even if you aren't interested in the topic. For example: "Within the court itself, Justice Harlan looks on his colleagues' handiwork with all the enthusiasm of a nun who has caught less pious sisters smuggling men into the convent." And Frank's comment on Frankfurter's Baker v. Carr dissent...