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Linehan, who grew up in Tulsa, Okla., and spent several years as a nun before becoming a psychologist, embodies several dialectical contradictions: a nun who has never lived in a convent; a careful scientist whose most engaging feature is her wry irreverence; a 65-year-old who has a maternal steeliness but was never a mother. It doesn't pay to underestimate Marsha Linehan. In Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder, she writes, "If the patient says, 'I am going to kill myself,' the therapist might reply, 'I thought you agreed not to drop out of therapy...
Passing beneath banners that proclaim the Andalusian region the "olive oil capital of the world," the African men each carry a plastic bag containing their belongings and a sheet of cardboard to serve as a bed. Their destination is the Santa Clara convent, which has lately turned some of its rooms into a makeshift dormitory. The shelter doesn't open until 10 p.m., but if the men don't arrive early, they won't get a space on the floor for the night...
...Seduction of a Proper Gentleman” 3. Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 in “Men! Men! Men!” 4. Bret Johnston in “A Literary Dandy” 5. Rev. Peter J. Gomes in “Codpiece in a Convent!” 6. Alison Simmons in “Platonic Forms ... of Passion” 7. Steven Pinker in “Mind Fuck?...
...Schlesinger Library; some are on loan from the Longy School of Music.“Boulanger’s legacy is still present today,” said Sarah Adams. “In addition to teaching hundreds of students from summers spent in France and at a convent in Wisconsin, and teaching both in Europe and America from the 1920s to the 1970s, her students have gone on to teach her style to another generation of composers.”Although her love of teaching is apparent, it is little known that Nadia Boulanger was the first woman...
...experience of being date-raped, Mirren told GQ: "I went to a convent school until I was 18 and had never spent a night away from home, or gone to parties. So I was very innocent when I went to college in London and I was living on my own. And I found guys were horrible, mean, rude, insulting and so without feeling...