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...extraordinarily good character." But perhaps the union job "could be done by a very energetic, muscular and violent woman, with the devotion of a saint and the arbitrariness and executive power of a prizefighter." No one fitting that description appeared on the scene, and the idea of an International Sisterhood of Doxies died-but Shaw's letter survived, was auctioned off last week in London's decorous Sotheby & Co. to a New York bookdealer...
Although I cannot claim in good conscience to have ever found a sixpence in any one of my sandals, I take it upon myself, however unworthy, to say a few words over the mangled remains of those of our sisterhood who have departed into the great beond of matrimony...
...Need for Referents. Of course the hapless husband, Harald, is really to blame. But it is hard to make out what sort of husband would be right. He must please not only his wife but placate the judgment of the sisterhood. Vassar's standards are high. One Vassar girl explains of her husband: "Freddy isn't an intellectual. But before we were married, we had an understanding that he should read Kafka and Joyce and Toynbee. Some of the basic books. So that semantically we would have the same referents...
...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 all, the sisters of this order wear street clothes instead of habits, but make promises of chastity and recite community prayers in their own chapel...
...France's most famous religious center for Protestant women is a bustling combination of hospital, school, medical training center and convent at Reuilly in Paris. Best known as nurses, the Reuilly sisters run their own hospital, have a home and school for delinquent girls. A well-known Anglican sisterhood is the 100-year-old Order of St. Andrew, which runs a convalescent home and assists parish priests in West London. The ladies of the order are ordained both as deaconesses and sisters, and Mother Clare, their superior, says: "We are as near to being in the ministry...