Word: monk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pilot project including representatives of four religions has been set up this Fall. A Brahmin Hindu from India, a Burmese Buddhist who has lectured at the New International Center of Buddhistic Studies, a Pakistani Buddhist monk, and an American Christian participate in the program...
...these were brilliant people, and occasionally they flash free of the author's clutch, as when "Monk" Lewis, master of the supernatural, jolts Shelley by ruling him out of a ghost-story session because Shelley is an atheist; or when Shelley's friend, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, hopes to seduce Mary while Shelley is away from home; or when Shelley gets a swimming lesson and plunges straight to the bottom, tempted by death and an answer to the Great Mystery. Despite such antics, Mary's father, husband and friends were schooled-and schooled her-to put intellect above...
...vacillations and tendency to flirt with political and religious extremists were largely responsible for the riots, Banda airily dismissed them as "one of those little outbreaks." It was a far less serious little outbreak that finally brought him down. His assassin turned out to be a 43-year-old monk who practices the traditional Ayurvedic (native) medicine-a secret method of treatment with herbs and massage. According to Colombo police, the monk bore a personal grudge against Banda, presumably because of his refusal to rid Ceylon of its modern doctors...
Within an hour after the monk's bullets found their mark, Ceylon's tough, puckish Governor General Sir Oliver Goonetilleke proclaimed what amounted to a state of emergency over Ceylon-a volatile land that boasts the highest homicide rate in Asia. But next day, as Banda's like-minded colleague, Education Minister Wijayananda Dahanayake, took over the premiership, a strange quiet settled over the country. Taxis, buses and cars flew mourning flags of white; the only hint of violence lay in a rising wave of public feeling against the Buddhist clergy. In Colombo a two-mile-long...
...managed to pass himself as a military surgeon, a psychology professor, a college dean, a cancer researcher, an assistant prison warden and a Trappist monk (TIME, June 29), acting seemed a logical career. But after a few days on the set of The Hypnotic Eye-Demara plays a doctor, plus eight bit parts-he decided that Hollywood was not for him. "The technical adviser hates me. And they are paying me peanuts. There is a huge power vacuum in this place. A smart guy could just walk in and take over." As for The Great Impostor, the movie that Universal...