Word: conventions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maids is a story about two aging sisters who live in shabby seclusion with their ancient housekeeper and a beloved pet-a mettlesome monkey named Tombo, who, "though a eunuch, was, after all, the male of the house." One day the Mother Superior of the neighboring convent brings alarming news: Tombo has been seen stealing into the chapel at night where he ate the consecrated hosts, tried to say Mass, and even urinated on the altar. It is clear to one sister that he must die. The old maids consult two priests, the older of whom agrees with the death...
...Rome she was welcomed by Diem's brother, Archbishop Ngo Dinh Thuc, who had been attending the Vatican Council; then she was whisked to a tree-shaded convent for a rest. Eventually, Mme. Nhu insists, she will return to South Viet Nam. Said she: "My burden will be hard indeed, for the Devil has not been disarmed and is still trying to beat me down...
...Gabrielle is 30, blue-eyed, friendly and full of common sense. She is an odd competitor for the Bobby Darins and the Paul Ankas, as anyone would agree who could see her in her heavy shoes and grey apron with a big knife cleaning sugar beets on the convent farm. "She's wonderfully well adapted to Dominican life," says a fellow sister who acts as her manager. "She's very joyful, and holy joy is the principal trait St. Dominic wanted to infuse in his order...
Died. Nam Phuong, 49, last Empress of Viet Nam, convent-bred Cochin Chinese bride (in 1934) of Puppet Emperor Bao Dai, who used her imperial influence to further Roman Catholicism, lived apart from her playboy husband after his 1955 exile; of a heart attack; in Chabrignac, France...
Into the Well. Once started, it seemed the affair would never stop. Sister Virginia had two children; the first died at birth, the second was smuggled out of the convent and raised in Osio's home. For seven years everyone in town knew what was going on but did nothing about it. In the convent itself, the nuns divided into accomplices, neutrals and enemies. But the enemies, inside and out, were immobilized by a major deterrent: since her father's death in 1599, Sister Virginia had been virtually governor of Monza...