Word: monke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When I was a Freshman I met a girl at the registration mixer who was nutty as a fruitcake and had hair to her waist. We stood in the lobby of Memorial Hall and translated the Latin inscriptions. She had a brother who wanted to be a monk...
...portrait of the traveling monk Zemmui, a member of the Tendai Buddhist sect, which ranks as a Japanese Giotto. It is a masterpiece of the 11th century, when the Fujiwara shoguns reigned, encouraging the arts as the Medicis did in Italy. The unknown artist profiles the Indian-born patriarch, a posture seldom used before, and gives him a Japanese face. As a light touch, the great priest's shoes appear below his chair, casually kicked off rather than neatly lined up to conform to Japanese etiquette. The picture is incredibly shallow spatially; the chair legs appear...
DIRECTIONS '66 (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Kurd Hatfield in a biography of Trappist Monk and Author Thomas Merton...
Advice in Pubs. A story in the Daily News sheds unexpected light on Buddhist suicides by fire: "A 16-year-old apprentice monk soaked himself with gasoline and burned himself to death. He was believed to have taken his life out of discontent with his superior, who had reproached him of listening too much to radio music...
...thick. Nov. 4 is the feast day of St. Charles Borromeo (1538-84), an Italian cardinal and church reformer possessed of a Gaullist profile, an imperious manner, and a bent for catechizing. Moreover, St. Charles, like his namesake, was once the target for an assassination attempt -by a disgruntled monk whose order he had attempted to control. The parallels were obvious; so were the concomitant moves De Gaulle was making in Europe last week...