Word: conventional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another rescued prelate, Polish-born Cardinal Hlond, was found in good health and spirits in a convent near Paderborn. Of his treatment by the Germans, he said only: "All is now forgotten; those are little personal things." Of German morale: "It is difficult to get any idea of the state of the German mind...
George Santayana, 81-year-old poet, philosopher, novelist (The Last Puritan), was awarded Columbia University's quinquennial Nicholas Murray Butler gold medal for his four metaphysical books, Realms of Being. The award will have to go to Rome where, since 1941, he has shunned war in a convent, finding that "in solitude it is possible to love mankind...
Music is an old, sweet story to nuns of the Roman Catholic Church. For some eighteen centuries they have been chanting matins and vespers in their convent chapels. Last week, in Chicago's austere Orchestra Hall, a choir of 80 nuns sang on a public stage, for the first time in history...
...courtyard of a convent stood a white statue of the Virgin. A few yards beyond, in the convent basement where faggots were stored, the body of a woman in a blue dress lay twisted on the ground...
...newald masterpiece is a polyptych of six hinged wood panels, each depicting scenes from the story of Christ's life. Painted about 1516 for a convent at Isenheim, Alsace, the intense, now-gruesome, now-radiant Altar Screen is easily the most important set of medieval paintings any German produced. Most experts agree that the work ranks above the best of Holbein the Younger, Dürer and Cranach...