Word: conventions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with someone and become a married couple early on, 2) spend their undergraduate years engaging in random hook-ups, or 3) simply live the celibate life. If students choose the third option, that's four years of celibacy. Who applied to Harvard in the hopes of training for a convent...
...onstage, she is one of the most vividly expressive personalities ever to take an opera-house curtain call. Appearing this fall in the Met's production of Manon, she bewitched audiences and critics alike with her compelling portrayal of the title character, a teenage girl who escapes from a convent, sets up shop as a courtesan, jilts her wealthy lover, seduces a priest and cuts a wide swath through Parisian high society before crashing and burning in the fifth act. It isn't exactly typecasting, she confesses with an all-American grin, but it's a welcome change of pace...
...Bengali girls. It was on Sept. 10, 1946, during a train ride to Darjeeling for a religious retreat, that Teresa received a "call within a call" in which she felt God directed her to the slums. "The message was quite clear," she told colleagues. "I was to leave the convent and help the poor whilst living among them. It was an order...
...Mass with her sister nuns, joins them for a spare meal of an egg, bread, banana and tea, then goes out into the city to work. Age and authority have not changed her; she is at ease these days with Pope and Prime Minister, but she still cleans convent toilets. She has won an array of international honors, including India's Order of the Lotus...but sees them only as "recognition that the poor are our brothers and sisters, that there are people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted." Especially...
...fists. George Friebolin, an advocate for the deaf at the Lexington Vocational Services in Queens, who knew some of the immigrants from a Bible-study program, said one man told him last week that his son had been kidnapped. "They told him that the baby was placed in a convent or a church in Manhattan," says Friebolin. "He says he's been searching for the child since...