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Monastic life varies from hard to hardest, and fewer than half of all novices last out the five-to seven-year training period before final vows are taken. As a rule, Benedictines rise at dawn to recite Matins and Lauds before Mass, spend four hours or more daily in choral prayer, observe silence after the last service of the day, Compline. Stricter congregations, such as the Trappists and the Camaldolese, rise for prayer around 2 in the morning, keep perpetual silence, abstain from meat entirely...
Last week Jackie Gleason's own activities were not so bizarre as they often are when his time is his own. Working hard at his new film, he was up at dawn every morning, plowing through take after take all day until 7 p.m. But he found time to irradiate at least one afternoon, sitting on a favorite banquette at Manhattan's 21 Club (a temporary off-Shor island), buying drinks for friends, marshaling waiters like a field general...
SUMER: THE DAWN OF ART, and THE ARTS OF ASSYRIA, both by Andre Parrot. These splendid books are the first two in a 40-volume survey of man's art. The project's guiding hand, as might be expected, is that of that homme perpetually engage, Andre Malraux...
Enmity & Amity. Still, he offered hope for his continent, and friendship for his foes. "This is Africa's age-the dawn of her fulfillment-yes, the moment when she must grapple with destiny to reach the summits of sublimity saying, ours was a fight for noble values and worthy ends, and not for lands and the enslavement of man. Still licking the scars of past wrongs perpetrated on her, could she not be magnanimous and practice no revenge? Her hand of friendship scornfully rejected, her pleas for justice and fair play spurned, should she not nonetheless seek to turn...
Inside Sauter-Finegan Revisited (RCA Victor). A Sauter-Finegan orchestra, with its twitters, tweets and weird percussive effects, sounds a little like a tropical jungle greeting the dawn. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Listeners should be warned that Autumn Leaves and April in Paris never sounded this way before-and hopefully never will again...