Word: conventions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after becoming a Presbyterian (TIME, March 18), was closed by a court order that she be returned to her Catholic parents-but on the condition that they do nothing to shake her new Protestant faith. After her conversion last fall, her parents had threatened to put Maura in a convent, whereupon she was smuggled out of Belfast and into England. There a kind of Protestant underground railroad shifted her from hideout to hideout until, two weeks ago. she turned up at the Belfast home of a Presbyterian pastor. He turned her over to the police, who took...
...Machiavelli, in the Convent of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, hard by the teeming markets of Rome, a sharp-faced man of 56 with penetrating blue eyes and a quick, pleasant smile settled in last week for a visit in the capital city of his church. He was Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski (pronounced Vishinsky*), Primate of Poland, and, under Pius XII himself, the most remarkable prelate in the Roman Catholic Church today...
...Fall & the Cradle. Other relatives rescued her and sent her to a Sacred Heart convent at Seattle, where the sisters prayed for her Protestant grandfather. Thereafter her story tells the usual girl's things-mysterious grownups, dresses, brothers, journeys, the near fall from virginity. The episodes, trivial in themselves, are good reading because they are by Mary McCarthy; they are also thought-provoking because they suggest something about reminiscing intellectuals in general. Those who fall out of a cradle do not merely scream; they see and live to tell. The Fear of the Fall-in the theological as well...
...cardinal entered the ancient former Carmelite convent on the Rue d'Assas in Paris and paused on the stone stairway. Here, on Sept. 3, 1792, a howling mob of the Revolution had hacked to pieces 114 bishops and priests, thrown their dismembered bodies into the Seine. The cardinal uttered a short prayer for the peace of their souls, then went on up the "stair of the martyrs" and entered the Salle des Actes, smiling and gesturing with slender hands. Before him, four cardinals, 20 archbishops, 90 bishops-most of the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church in France-rose...
Mohammed began collecting guns, race horses, and fast cars which he drove himself (he once drove a Bugatti 55 miles from Rabat to Casablanca in 32 minutes). He kept a reported 40 concubines, frequently adding fresh ones and sending faded beauties off to a convent. The French encouraged such distractions from more serious affairs of state (though later, to discredit him, they spread the word that he dealt savagely with servants who seduced some of his concubines, had one whipped to death). He exercised fully the Sultan's traditional right to exact gifts from his subjects, and the saying...