Word: monke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meeting of correspondent and cover subject. "Why do you shave your head?" Tri Quang asked, staring at Frank McCulloch's gleaming pate. Frank said he looked worse with hair. Tri Quang marveled at Frank's close shave and inquired: "Doesn't it hurt you?" The monk drew out an electric razor and said with a smile: "I use this, but it doesn't give a very close shave." Then Tri Quang fixed McCulloch with a thoughtful stare and concluded the preliminaries with an observation that gave the correspondent cause to meditate: "Mr. McCulloch, you ought...
...varsity race was the only contest in which the Cantabs appeared even remotely pressed by the Light Blue oarsmen. Sophomore Monk Terry stroked the first boat to a two-length victory in 6:29.3 for the mile and five-sixteenths course. Columbia finished...
...molested by a monk? A lesbian mother superior? A suicidal sister? Shocking material indeed, even if it is only on film. The movie is a new French production called Suzanne Simonin, la Religieuse de Diderot, and last week it was the center of a bitter controversy that has once more put the government of Charles de Gaulle under a withering verbal cannonade. Reason: it is the first film in French history whose showing has been banned by the government both in France and abroad...
...controversial film is an adaptation of Diderot's 18th century novel of an illegitimate girl forced into a convent life. In the Encyclopedist's book, Suzanne threatens suicide after one mother superior tries to seduce her, a monk tries to rape her and various other unconventional happenings deprive her of both vocation and bodily peace. Diderot meant his book less as an anticlerical attack than an attack on the corrupt society of the 18th century, which frequently forced illegitimates into the church. Recognizing it as such, Rome never placed it on the Index of forbidden reading for Catholics...
Champagne companies think of their product as an ambiance, or way of life, but the way is changing. The wine is still aged, bubbled in the course of a second fermentation in the bottle just as Benedictine Monk Dom Perignon did it in the 17th century. But large champagne companies have now air-conditioned their fermentation rooms, automated their packing lines and replaced wooden vats with 500-gallon, glass-lined tanks. They have also begun to sell their wine in French food shops, where the return is greater than it would be from sales overseas. "We were shy about selling...