Word: openness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week a new prior arrived in Boquen. Dom Besret (pronounced beret) had been summoned to Rome and dismissed for threatening to destroy the monastic concept. Cistercian superiors were unmoved by his pleas to be permitted to stay on as "president" of a more open community. Explained a Vatican official privately: "If you are going to have a monastery, you must have a monastery. It can't be a country club...
True to Life. More like a hippie commune than a country club, the abbey, under Dom Besret's direction, was open to everyone. Young and old, men and women, even non-Catholics, could freely come and go. When they met, they kissed each other three times on the cheek. Laymen helped prepare meals, tend the vegetable garden and the six cows. Prayers were informal and spontaneous, usually including references to world events and problems of the day. Dom Besret's message was simple: overcome all personal differences and become one people in love...
...slight and gradual. The erratic swings-from extreme looseness to tightness and back again-in past Federal Reserve policy have created an economic credibility gap. Businessmen, consumers and labor leaders generally seem convinced that at the first signs of recession, the Federal Reserve will again switch to an open-handed expansion. This time the change must be carried out with such finesse that, as one high Administration policymaker says, "there will be a guessing game for months." Bankers, businessmen and economists will have to try to figure out whether or not movements in interest rates and bank reserves indicate that...
...business and labor leaders not to sin, you have to define sin. That means some kind of White House specification of what is and what is not in the national interest in terms of price and wage decisions. Exhortation or purely moral suasion will not work. That is an open-mouth policy without any teeth...
...widow who enters Brede at age 42 after a successful career as a British government officer. At least half a dozen more biographies are told with quiet humor and occasionally painful intimacy. Moreover, the order is beset by a fiscal crisis, which is solved when a scapular cross cracks open revealing a ruby as big as the Ritz. Miss Godden's stylistic triumph is the placing of events within the cycles of the divine office and the liturgical year. She lived at England's Stanbrook Benedictine monastery while writing the book, and has translated her observations of life...