European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 12, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 16 the stars and stripes tuesday March 12, a swinging nun sister Corita staged a happening by Isabelle Shelton Nana staff writer Washington . We be had the flying nun and the singing nun and recently this City took to its heart what columnist Art Buchwald introduced As the swinging s sister Corita the head of the Art department at los Angeles immaculate heart College whose vibrantly coloured word entwined silk screen prints have enchanted major Art galleries and Madison ave nue York s metropolitan museum of Art and com parable museums throughout the world hang her Seri graphs on their Walls. Some of Madison Avenue s biggest advertisers such As Westinghouse Container corp. And ism hire her for and Washington besides attending a conference and being feted at several social events she staged a happening that according to one local newspaper would have put any hippie to event staged for the Benefit of immaculate heart College which receives the profits from Al sister Corita s Art endeavours was held in a onetime movie House that recently has been converted to what can be loosely described As a nightclub like meeting Hall that caters to hippie types seeking psychedelic thrills at least As provided by the manage ment come not from drugs but from wildly Colore swirling lights and resoundingly loud music on electric guitars and other souped up night of sister Corita s happening she ran the show. There was less emphasis on the psychedelic overtones. But the hippies who were there mingling with the socialite Art lovers must have Felt very much at Corita wanted to show spine films of her Art work and How she teaches it including her theory that it makes sense to teach Art to youngsters and adults at the same that was Only the beginning of the evening. The artist whose infectious vitality and extraordinary Jiede Livre even More than her Art recently landed her on the cover of Newsweek Magazine As the prototype of the new emancipated Type of Catholic nun warmed up her audience by passing around balloons noise makers streamers and Long loaves of French bread. For music she provided a chamber ensemble a mad Rigal group and a spellbinder at a Haight Ashbury love in the nun coaxed and urged her audience to use and Exchange their trinkets and thus break out of their self containment and make new , total strangers were blowing balloons at each other breaking bread together and becoming friends. Mor than once sister Corina has been the Center of controversy. But she remains undaunted. If she can stimulate people to think she s Happy. And she sees nothing amiss in using the most modern of approaches to accomplish just that. Bing Crosby s wife Kathy a Regent at immaculate heart of Mary Colleg who had come to Washington with sister Corita and a group of other nuns was being taught by a Georgetown University coed to do the Funky she had provided bread explained sister Corita because breaking bread is giving of oneself the nun who did the illustrations for mrs. Crosby recent Book Bing and other things and is planning a series of children s books with Der single s wife has joined Many other Catholic nuns in shedding the traditional religious garb. For the happening she wore an Orange Paisle mexican dress and a Black and Brown polka dotted Slicker. Her Brown hair drawn simply Back was in switch to More modern garb is quite recent. One of the films she showed in which she is taking her students to View a los Angeles tire factory shows her in somber nun s Point of the factory trip she explained to the audience was to help her students realize that therein Beauty in everything even the most mundane. Sister Corita s serigraphs which Are owned among others by Lynda Bird and Chuck Robb the Sargent shrivers and Ethel and Robert Kennedy at tract As much for their message As for their searing Brilliant colors and abstract Art forms. She customarily works in quotations she likes anything from Madison Avenue to Albert Camus Beckett Thoreau and the Bible. One she did for a Westinghouse and which brought the firm an enormous Reader response looks like Achild s painting and contains a quotation from Goethe. It reads it is the property of True Genius to disturb All settled kids imagination often stymied by the system by Gay Pauley up women s editor sister Corita the painting nun and teacher believes that both parents and educators under estimate the abilities of children. Sometimes i think they have no concept of what a child is capable of said the Iowa born sister who talked of training children and also of what it s like to go from nun s habit to Plain clothes during a recent sat there in her room wearing a coed Type of dark skirt and red sweater and brightly col ored calf High was up in new England. It was cold she said. I needed took care of that so far As the sister Felt she needed to explain her hippie the neglect in cultivation of children s potential. First graders can dance sing draw do almost anything said sister then their imagination gets stymied by the system. They re channelled into conformity by both parents and wish both were More conscious of pulling things out of Young people instead of pouring so much she thinks of All the knowledge Avni Lub c to today s Young people she says the whole world now comes into our living room. 1 some times think this is part of what is happening tour teen agers. So Many big bites for them to faults the system of training teachers for part of the educational neglect of the 011113 i m amazed at the teachers who have majored in education but come out of College Riih no depth in any one mexican food More than tortillas and Beans the idea that the mexican cuisine consists entirely of tamales tortillas Beans and the like is far from True. The mexican menu is much More varied. Here Are two recipes that show the Spanish influence. The Chicken Olive dish is quite simple to prepare and great party fare. Bere Nienas Hellenas stuffed eggplant 3 medium sized eggplants 2 Tbs. Minced onion i a Pound boiled hum 2 egg minced a cup grated cheese \ z cup bread crumbs /4 cup Butteri tsp. Minced Paisley Salt and Pepper to taste Cook eggplants whole in boiling salted water for 15minutes. Cut each in two Lengthwise remove pulp Drain. Combine remaining ingredients with pulp. Mix Well and use to refill the eggplant shells. Place i shallow buttered baking dish and have ready the following sauce.1 Tbs. Minced onion % cup beef Stock 1 Clove garlic minced suit and Pepper to taste2 Tbs. Oil 1 buy Leuf \ i cup Tomato Puree Fry minced onion and garlic in Oil until soil add remaining ingredients and simmer 15 minutes. Pour Over stuffed eggplants and bake in a moderately hot oven 375 until lightly browned on top about 20 minutes. Serves 6. Gallina in Salsa de Aceitunas Chicken with Olive Sauee 2 fricassee chickens Cut 2 qts. Chicken Broth in pieces 1 cup Tomato Puree 2 Small Bell peppers 4 Tbs. Hour minced k cup Oil 2 onions 4 Doz. Whole Green olives /4 cup seedless raisins Salt and Peppo Pinch Comino use sparingly 2 tips. Vinegar 2 cloves garlic2 tips oregano 2 1-Inch Sticks cinnamon 2 tips. Coriander2 slices bread soaked simmer Chicken in water with seasoning to j. The strained mixture. And the cooked t ill l. A Toma ining dozen whole olives and raisins. L k foretaste. Then add the Comino and vinegar y 3d minutes longer covered. If desired Puk peppers May be added whole to the i 6 to 8. A
