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Wasp, though not L 'Engle's first "adult" book, carries all the faint creakiness of a hitherto cloister adult valiantly tackling "the real world." Her multiplicity of competing threads and emotions occasionally betrays her into a line straight out of soap opera ("She did not want the perspicacious doctor to guess that she was fascinated by the attractive young bishop"), but more often it reduces Katherine to a passive, dubious on looked at the complexity. She hardly knows what to think when her old friend, Felix, unexpectedly tells her the spent years cruising the gave bars Greenwich Village or when...
That quality, finally, is what distinguishes the film. Director Hudson is perhaps a little too much in love with slow-motion sport photography, but he is an imagist of surpassing skill. Whether it is a matter of getting the light just right in a college cloister, or of perfectly framing a group of runners in training on an ocean beach, or of making one feel that one has seen just how a D'Oyly Carte production of The Mikado must have looked in the '20s, Hudson painstakingly makes an obscure corner of history reverberate in a nearly mythic...
...York City trip was also the origin of "Mother Superior and the Sisters," where the hoopsters were bedded in long, cloister-like rooms in the attic of the Harvard Club and afterwards claimed that they knew what it felt like to be nuns...
...Storey Mountain appeared in American bookshops. Within weeks the autobiography became the most unlikely bestseller in American history-600,000 copies in the original clothbound edition. The author, Thomas Merton, was a young Roman Catholic convert who had scuttled a promising literary career to seek the austere and silent cloister of a Trappist monastery. But the career pursued him. At the time of his death in 1968 at the age of 53, the monk who dwelt in a hermitage at Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky had become the most celebrated religious recluse in the Western world...
...frailty of Arcosanti's finances, Soleri has been able to maintain out side interest in his project for a decade. The mystique of his eclectic, quasi-religious creed, cribbed from sages as different as Matthew Arnold and Teilhard de Chardin (whose name will be on a huge cloister planned for Arcosanti), draws hundreds of visitors from around the world to the site each year. Many of them come to try out as children of the Arcosanti dream...