Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...molested by a monk? A lesbian mother superior? A suicidal sister? Shocking material indeed, even if it is only on film. The movie is a new French production called Suzanne Simonin, la Religieuse de Diderot, and last week it was the center of a bitter controversy that has once more put the government of Charles de Gaulle under a withering verbal cannonade. Reason: it is the first film in French history whose showing has been banned by the government both in France and abroad...
...manpower for this job, Dr. Goddard borrowed 50 to 75 physicians and an equal number of pharmacologists from the U.S. Public Health Service, a sister agency with which the FDA has hitherto maintained a sterile sibling rivalry. The new FDA head also decided to break down the Sadusk system of having one team of FDA experts, headed by Dr. Frances O. Kelsey, keep track of new drugs under investigation, and a separate team decide when these drugs should be approved for general prescription use. All this was too much for Dr. Sadusk. Last week he precipitately quit...
Died. Mary L. McCarran, 59, daughter of the late U.S. Senator Pat Mc Carran, who spent 32 years as Sister Mary Mercy, a Holy Names nun, often driven to despair as her politically influential father constantly meddled in her cloistered life-winning her trips to Europe, paying for her to come to Washington's Catholic University for a Ph.D. and helping her stretch her poverty vows by sending his limousine around to pick her up at the Library of Congress-until his death in 1954, after which she left the order to care for her mother and ailing sister...
...farm boy who has only the night before experienced his first baffling encounter with sex. He is also the central figure in this stunningly perceptive, crisply humorous novel. In his first book A Long and Happy Life, Reynolds Price told the amusing tale of Mile's gangly pretty sister, Rosacoke, who resorted to motherhood to win her laggard suitor. This novel takes the Mustian family back a dozen years or so. It is more richly textured, more artfully woven than A Long and Happy Life, subtly fabricating a world of startling and compelling beauty. The book is "a Southern...
Debbie, singing in her own small, true voice, plays your typical modern nun-mascaraed lashes, tweezed eyebrows and lipsticked smile facing the wind as she steers her motor scooter around the Belgian countryside. To give Sister Smile's simple story some plot, if not taste, the singing nun is furnished with an old boy friend (Chad Everett) who makes her a recording star and an international celebrity, then tries to persuade her to renounce her vows...