Word: kim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning last fortnight, 104 of the unmarried monks and 109 of the nuns shuffled into Seoul's Choke Temple to start a hunger strike. Rubbing their prayer beads, softly chanting their sutras. they waited. As night fell, the celibates retired to sleep-all but Sentry Kim Chi Yo, who took up his post at the temple's weathered wooden gates. There was a delegation of married monks in town to protest the government's decree, and rumor had it that the married monks might be looking for trouble...
They were. At 4 a.m., drowsy Sentry Kim heard a suspicious sound. Suddenly, some 200 of the enemy were upon him, swinging clubs. The sleepy celibate monks got to their feet, rushed out to join the fight, but their 20-hour fast put them at an additional disadvantage before the well-planned onslaught of the family men. By the time the police came charging to the temple. 20 celibates were injured, ten of them seriously...
Rossini: Stabat Mater (Maria Stader, Marianna Radev, Ernst Häfliger, Kim Borg; RIAS Symphony conducted by Ferenc Fricsay; Decca, 2 LPs). The composer who was once advised by Beethoven to stick to comic opera, here turns up in a churchly (if not always churchlike) mood. The chorus sings some lofty and properly devotional counter point, but the lovely solo voices have arias that bounce and flow with the joyfulness of the Barber of Seville. Performance: elegant...
This eloquent book bears a Danish boy's precocious witness to the hard scriptural paradox that he who loses his life shall find it. Seventeen and in love, Kim knocks around the Baltic as an apprentice on a three-masted schooner, fighting for peace within, while World War II rages around him. Soon this unschooled lad, who can write so tenderly to his sweetheart ("May you sleep as sweetly as a water lily on a pond"), is looking into the hearts of others-the cough-racked Finnish soldier riding a blacked-out bus near the front, the old Danish...
...resentment or hatred at all," he reports after being tortured. "The cleansing of the spirit makes you see the world from a new level way above what is known as pain or fear." Most affecting of all the letters his mother has collected in this book is the one Kim wrote his sweetheart just before the Nazis executed him in April 1945. Kim, then 21, said: "Promise me-this you owe to everything I have lived for-that never will the thought of me come between you and Life." The hardbought truths of Kim's goodbye are valid...