Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lady in white was Sister Tina Bernal, 22, who may well be the nation's only dancing nun. After five years as a professional dancer with the San Francisco Ballet Company, which she joined at age 13, she entered the Society of the Religious of the Sacred Heart in 1964. Although Sister Tina spends most of her time studying theology, her superiors have lately allowed her to dance at experimental worship services. She is not allowed to wear ballet costumes. So she performs in a white version of Sacred Heart's traditional black habit - the order wears both...
...Sister Tina, liturgical dancing symbolizes man's oneness with...
Radcliffe's funds also declined in 1966-67, by $448,000. Comparative figures for the seven sister schools showed that Radcliffe's funds in '66-67 were the lowest ($3,922,000). Vassar, Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Wellesley and Radcliffe followed in that order...
...improbable quest through Prague for morphine to ease his clandestine patient's pain, Dr. Braun seeks out his sister, who has been reduced to the level of working as a cleaning woman in a Nazi-run brothel. He first blunders into the girls' shower room-giving Brynych an excuse for a breathtaking study of the splash and spray of water on naked female forms. Later, the camera encounters a nightmare revel of swinish soldiers among whom the girls are herded like cattle before being returned to their stalls. In a corner, Braun comes upon the body, ignored...
...place as the boldest public wit since Wilde. Strachey never hesitated to flaunt his homosexual inclina tions. His finest moment may have come during his court hearing as a conscientious objector in 1916, when he was asked what he would do if he saw a German soldier raping his sister. Strachey paused two beats, then remarked: "I would try to interpose my own body...