Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis of Assisi (Mother Mary Romuald, Superior General) of Milwaukee, for education and care of the mentally retarded ($50,000). The sisters run the special school in Wisconsin where Rosemary Kennedy has lived since...
Eleven demonstrators--four of them Harvard students--were arrested in all Two paid the fine and two -- John L. Friedman '67 and Raphael D. Sorkin'66--appealed the decision. Suffolk County Superior Court will hear their case time this month...
...wish to state most emphatically that civilizations superior by far to ours are very much alive on other planets within as well as beyond pur solar system, and that their representatives do pay visits to us here on earth...
...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...
...controversial film is an adaptation of Diderot's 18th century novel of an illegitimate girl forced into a convent life. In the Encyclopedist's book, Suzanne threatens suicide after one mother superior tries to seduce her, a monk tries to rape her and various other unconventional happenings deprive her of both vocation and bodily peace. Diderot meant his book less as an anticlerical attack than an attack on the corrupt society of the 18th century, which frequently forced illegitimates into the church. Recognizing it as such, Rome never placed it on the Index of forbidden reading for Catholics...