Word: monke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shockers abound. A butterfly is burned alive, and a Buddhist monk pantomimes immolation. An American G.I., in the form of an enormous skeletal death god, hangs in front of the proscenium with blackened doll babies in its eye sockets, a Superman shield on its chest, barbed-wire guts and a six-foot bomb in place of genitalia. An American colonel is satirized as being "anti-Communist, anti-queer, anti-drink, anti-cigarettes." At the end of the first act, the entire cast appears onstage wearing paper bags over their heads. Whimpering, they stumble over the footlights and into the auditorium...
...prison favorite was a Trappist monk who was caught smuggling 150 eggs into the compound under the prison wall. Sentenced to 45 days in solitary, he took the punishment lightly, since as a monk he was used to long and lonely meditations. Still another prison saint was Dick Rogers, a former British soldier. An alcoholic, he proved to be virtually the only man who could be trusted to guard the communal food store without stealing anything for himself. Nonetheless, writes Gilkey, "Many a pious diner, whose ration of food depended on Dick's strength of character, still thought...
...have their cattle not killed or their wells not poisoned. Lovers paid for the right to a few unharried moments in the moonlight. All the institutions of Sicilian society-church, aristocracy, political parties-either went along with the Mafia or actively participated in it. In one monastery, a monk member of the Mafia slew a district Mafia chief, who also happened to be his father superior...
...Music Barn, a resort just one-half mile from Tanglewood, where the top rock, folk and jazz artists perform in a converted stable. This season's roster includes Pete Seeger, Thelonious Monk, Dave Brubeck, Lionel Hampton...
...First Crusade was launched by Pope Urban II, a French aristocrat who had donned a monk's cassock. Urban's purposes were to help Byzantium resist the Turkish onslaught, heal the schism between the Churches of Rome and Constantinople, and harness the anarchic violence of the feudal soldiery in the service of a righteous cause-the reconquest of the Holy Sepulcher from the Moslem infidel...