Word: sisters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into the bush near Dodoma, killed, disemboweled and dissected. Soon afterward, local justice learned the reason. A native woman had a grudge against her son because he had thrown her second husband's bow and arrows out of his hut (a grave insult). With the support of her sister, she sent a messenger to hire a lionman from a.sorcerer in the next village. "It was a human being," the messenger told the court, "and it was a woman. It walked like a dog and it sat like a dog. Its head was like a human, but it was covered...
...Makiokas are an Osaka-based clan of proper Japanese who, unlike proper Bostonians, have dipped into capital. The four sisters who dominate Author Tanizaki's story are snobbish, overbred, illness and accident-prone, genteelly displaced persons in a Japan that is flexing its muscles for World War II. By strictly observed seniority rights, Yukiko−who at 30 is the oldest unmarried sister−must find a husband first. But Yukiko is a clinging vine who almost prefers clinging to her family. She is adept at flower-arranging, but she gets completely flustered if she has to answer...
...book is a raggedly plotted novel whose first-person heroine, Sister Ursula, obviously walks in the footsteps of Monica Baldwin. Unhappily, Author Baldwin's story of a nun who misjudges her vocation also treads close on the path of Kathryn Hulme's The Nun's Story, and by comparison comes off secondbest. Such fascination as it has lies in the book's embittered documentation of a nun's daily round and the romantic-escapist character of Sister Ursula who acts like an adolescent schoolgirl at the stage door of heaven waiting...
...Clammy Toad. Sister Ursula joins her order in her late teens, is assigned to a convent in Belgium. Like Sister Luke of The Nun's Story, she suffers the shock of initiation: an austere cell so cold that the holy-water stoup is sometimes frozen; the regimen of the "custody of the eyes," i.e., never letting them stray from a modest downward glance; the "instruments of penance," ranging from a scourging cord to metal knee and elbow bracelets studded with blunt-tipped nails. As early as her fifth day, Sister Ursula feels "a dreadful sick sensation as though...
...Failed? Not unnaturally, Sister Ursula develops painful twinges of doubt as to whether or not she has a religious vocation. She plunges from her novitiate into professed nunhood in a "gambler's spirit." uttering a pathetic, near-blasphemous prayer: "O God−if there is a God−let what I am going to do be right . . ." She persists in trying to be a good nun for yet another decade−evidently from a stubborn prideful refusal to admit to herself that she has made a great mistake...