Word: cloisters
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...faithful between good acts and bad ones. Monasticism, particularly, requires what Kaufmann calls "one great decision, once-to renounce the prerogative of making major decisions." Monks and nuns, he points out, do not even have to decide where to live or with whom. Both inside and outside the cloister, however, the choice of religion as a strategy is becoming less effective; more and more clergymen are daring to reach their own moral conclusions and voice them in public...
...Speak No Treason is a king-size gothic romance by Rosemary Hawley Jarman, who writes medieval English almost as gorgeous as Charles Reade's in Cloister and the Hearth. Her pages are dotted with sarplers, live-lodes, oxters, and muster-develers. 'Zooks if anybody knows what they mean; 'zounds if they aren't fun anyway. So is her version of Richard. She sees him as a 15th century Bobby Kennedy, the runt of a glittering litter who as a youth is devoted to his glamorous older brother, King Edward IV, and as Edward's successor...
...which he quit in pique when a real estate developer put apartment blocks on the land below the garden, ruining the view); and the enormous castle of Vauvenargues on the north flank of the hill that Cézanne often painted, Mont St.-Victoire. But Mougins has become his cloister. "He doesn't travel any more. He hardly even goes into Cannes
...bedchamber (be careful to watch the metamorphosis in her pillow as her sin and the play's action deepen: first it picks up a red ribbon on the end, then it becomes pure scarlet); a massive crucifix lowered from the ceiling turns right-stage into the friar Bonaventura's cloister. Especially after intermission Vaughan makes very effective use of the traditional alcove at center stage which he has opened and closed for ceremonial processions and deftly lighted tableaux...
...suppose the day had to come when normal students leading a sane, healthy life would be labeled conservatives, and their home, in this case Schuyler Hall, compared with a cloister. May we freedom-loving Schuylerites rise up in protest against such flip comparisons, while still shunning "radical activism...