Word: monke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enthusiastically endorsed by Roman Catholics, whose postconciliar hymnbooks are patently incomplete if they do not include his martial hymn, A Mighty Fortress Is Our God. Less than a generation ago, Luther was scorned-even by Catholic scholars who should have known better-as a sensuous, psychotic, fallen monk, the deliberate destroyer of Christendom. Luther, wrote Jesuit Hartmann Grisar in his 1926 biography, suffered from "an extraordinary capacity for self-delusion...
...until, one day in 1505, he was caught in a sudden storm while walking toward the village of Stotternheim. A bolt of lightning knocked him to the ground, and Luther, terrified, called out to the church's patroness of miners: "St. Anne, help me! I will become a monk...
...series of interviews by Susan Sheehan, a New Yorker writer and the wife of Neil Sheehan, who was a New York Times correspondent in Saigon. In addition to this Vietnamese trio, seven other people are presented in the book: a landlord, a Montagnard, an orphan, a Buddhist monk, a Viet Cong, a South Vietnamese soldier, a politician...
Just Desserts. The pair of lawyers could have-perhaps should have-done their routine at the Palace. During one involved inquisition, Bryan quoted a Buddhist monk to the effect that Buddhism is an "agnostic" religion. Agnostic Darrow wanted to know what the monk looked like. "How tall was he?" Replied Bryan: "I think he was about as tall as you, but not so crooked...
When a Japanese prepares to make a wish, he is apt to buy a one-eyed doll modeled after the famed Buddhist monk Daruma, who founded the Zen sect 1,500 years ago. Then, if his wish is fulfilled, he completes the Daruma's missing eye as a symbol of gratitude for otherworldly intervention. Last week, in the Tokyo headquarters of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Premier Eisaku Sato dipped a sumi brush into an inkstone and with swift strokes daubed in the dark right eye of his Daruma. "The eyes," he remarked when he had finished...