Word: conventions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...part appropriately cut to her girlish measure, but in a picture that ought to be cut in half. Brigitte is cast as a girl of good provincial family, who has secretly written a bestselling novel-a fact which so horrifies her father that he ships her off to a convent. Wrong train, of course, and Brigitte winds up in Paris in the company of two young journalists (Daniel Gelin and Robert Hirsch) who have no money but plenty of notions. Brigitte soon gets one of her own, and enters a striptease contest to get rich quick. It turns...
...Clammy Toad. Sister Ursula joins her order in her late teens, is assigned to a convent in Belgium. Like Sister Luke of The Nun's Story, she suffers the shock of initiation: an austere cell so cold that the holy-water stoup is sometimes frozen; the regimen of the "custody of the eyes," i.e., never letting them stray from a modest downward glance; the "instruments of penance," ranging from a scourging cord to metal knee and elbow bracelets studded with blunt-tipped nails. As early as her fifth day, Sister Ursula feels "a dreadful sick sensation as though...
...perches on the Apennines 60 miles east of Florence in north central Italy. But last week an unlikely rebel had the people talking angrily about throwing out the Reds once and for all. The issue: progressive education. The rebel: Mother Veronica, the frail, 74-year-old abbess of the Convent of St. Clare, who runs a top-notch traditionalist school for about 90 of San Marino's girls...
...authority, argues for a classless classroom, with the teacher as merely a "master companion" who discusses with the pupils what and how they should study. Montanari installed the Freinet method in all of San Marino's elementary schools except one: Mother Veronica's St. Clare's Convent...
Cookies & Assurance. Mother Veronica's stand was cheered through all of San Marino (pop. 13,000). Parents climbed up to the grey stone convent atop a 900-ft. cliff to pledge support through the double iron grille in the visitors' room, received in turn a whispered assurance, plus the traditional cookies and convent-made bubbly white wine. Firm backing for Mother Veronica's defiant ways came from her bishop, who specifically ordered her to keep the school open, exhorted all Catholics to "support the sisters in their struggle...