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...deaconesses associated with the Kaiserswerth movement still serve primarily in hospitals, but other Protestant sisters undertake almost every ministerial duty short of celebrating the communion service. In Germany, Darmstadt's Ecumenical Sisters of Mary do missionary work among the poor, perform religious plays for pilgrim audiences, run a retreat house. Organized in 1946 to serve penance for Nazi crimes against world Jewry, the sisters eat breakfast standing up in commemoration of concentration-camp routine, recite special prayers on the eve of the Jewish Sabbath. Another German sisterhood, the Casteller Ring of Schloss Schwanberg, has an intellectual apostolate: teachers...
Images of Truth, by Glenway Wescott. Shrewd portraits of fellow authors (Katherine Anne Porter, Thomas Mann and others) by one of the U.S.'s best non-practicing novelists (he wrote The Pilgrim Hawk...
Images of Truth, by Glenway Wescott. The author, one of the U.S.'s best nonwriting novelists (he wrote The Pilgrim Hawk), ends a long silence with a fine if critical collection of portraits of fellow authors-Katherine Anne Porter. Isak Dinesen, Thomas Mann and others...
Images of Truth, by Glenway Wescott. The author, one of the U.S.'s best nonwriting novelists (he wrote The Pilgrim Hawk), ends a long silence with a fine collection of critical portraits of fellow authors-Katherine Anne Porter, Isak Dinesen, Thomas Mann and others...
Like the pre-Ship of Fools Katherine Anne Porter, Novelist Glenway Wescott is a somewhat melancholy yet tantalizing literary figure. His novels-including The Grandmothers (1927) and The Pilgrim Hawk (1940)-earned him a special reputation as a prose craftsman and subtle prober of the wheels and springs of emotion that turn the clock of character. But he has produced little fiction (only five volumes since 1924) and, though he has started some projects, has published nothing for the past 17 years. Through all that time, a faithful coterie of Wescott admirers has continued to hope not only...