Word: conventions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just about every day. Somebody always had to be with him on the stairs for fear he would slip. They have these attacks if they have the slightest little scare-like slipping on a polished floor. His behavior wasn't all that good, and the nuns at the convent school couldn't really teach him anything...
Beards & Blondes. Never, in the 18 years since he fled East Germany as a penniless refugee, has Richter's prestige been higher. Many a city-notably Vienna-has tried to lure him from Munich, but he is not budging. Why should he, when bearded students, blonde duchesses, convent novices, bank presidents and scientists are fighting for tickets to his concerts? He lives a lonely personal life-smoking nervously on long, solitary walks along the banks of the Isar River, draining bottle after bottle of beer while studying at night. But his relationship with his public is a happy affair...
...progressives want to continue as an approved religious order, they must return to wearing "a recognizable habit." Rome also ordered them to restore the traditional discipline of religious life, including the compulsory daily prayer services that the reforming sisters considered in conflict with their work outside the convent...
With the money from the sale, Bishop Jansen converted a nearby convent chapel into a church for the residents of his old cathedral parish, ordered the construction of two much-needed new churches in the Rotterdam suburbs, plus another in The Hague, which is part of his diocese. Although the developer who bought Rotterdam's Catholic cathedral has received a few letters warning that he will "be fried in hell," Rotterdammers have generally taken the razing in stride. "The bishop," says one Catholic merchant, "is a first-class businessman." A second Dutch prelate, Bishop Hubertus Ernst of Breda...
...particularly the church. The devil speaks of God sitting on his great throne "surrounded by thousands of sycophantic, prissy little angels" all telling Him how great, good, handsome, and wise He is. In response to his final wish, the cook is transformed into a nun and lands in the convent of the Leaping Virilians, where initiation consists of bouncing around on a trampoline to the beat of Big Sister, the head of the convent. ("Big Sister Is Watching You" signs appear on the walls...