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...Calm is the night, O Lord, as we wait for you," begin the seated brothers of Vermont's Weston Priory, singing one of the simple contemporary hymns written by their own Brother Gregory. "All the stars are laughing at our wonder." They continue antiphonally, "Christ yesterday and today/ The beginning and the end/ The alpha and the omega." And then they sing, "Glorify the Lord with me/ Let us praise his name/ Those whose spirit is crushed/ He will save." After John Denver's recording of Annie's Song is played, two brothers strum a simple accompaniment...
...centuries monks followed unchanging, intricate patterns of prayer and work while withdrawing from the world to try to discern God in their own lives. Seeking the same goal, the brothers of Weston have developed new forms of prayer and work that draw them into the outside world in ways uncharacteristic of contemplative monks. Small and simple, a fledgling beside centuries-old Benedictine monasteries, Weston Priory has become a beacon of new directions in monasticism since its founding in 1953 by German-born Abbot Leo Rudloff. At the time, Rudloff, who also headed the Benedictine Abbey of the Dormition in Jerusalem...
Vera Laska Weston, Mass...
...Greg M Weston, a spokesman for the student umbrella group which filed the Columbia petition, said yesterday that "there's a pervasive felling at [Law school] campuses across the nation that discrimination in hiring is a problem
...known habit and syntax of art, like fruit or flowers arranged on the sideboard." After them, the problem was to recomplicate the game of seeing; to show how the camera could deal with what was neither familiar in landscape nor quite amenable to the given pictorial conventions. Edward Weston did this with closeups on natural detail-the ribbed flank of a sand dune, the tiny mesas of worn rock surface at Point Lobos. Ansel Adams, the most popular of all American photographers, succeeded in turning the remote stasis of 19th century topographical photos into a Wagnerian drama of events...