Word: monke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...imported scholarly monks and artisans from Italy, Spain, Ireland and England to convert Aachen into St. Augustine's Civitas Dei, the divine city, in the barbarian heartland of Europe. He encouraged one monk, Alcuin, to make script more readable; Carolingian minuscule is still the foundation for the text type used in present-day printing. He built an octagonal chapel that still stands in Aachen, along the lines of the mosaic-coated San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy. He even stole marble columns from Ravenna to make his church more authentic...
...subversion. His personal Ho Chi Minh trail has led him through the widest range of revolutionary activity experienced by any living Red leader. En route, he shed identities like snakeskins, metamorphosing from cabin boy to pastry cook, from poet to guerrilla leader, from Parisian photo retoucher to pseudo-Buddhist monk. His name-changes alone would fill an address book (some 20 have been pinned down, ranging from Nguyen "the Victorious" to "Old Chap" Wang). But beneath the chimeric legend lies a purposeful, pragmatic Communist whose aim is the conquest of all Southeast Asia...
JAZZ ON A SUMMER'S DAY (CBS, 10-1 p m ).-Jazz Greats Louis Armstrong, Gerry Mulligan, the George Shearing Quintet felonious Monk, Mahalia Jackson and others in performances filmed at a pas Newport Jazz Festival...
Still a bachelor, he has surrounded himself with eight Tennessee buddies. They earn their pay by keeping everyone else away, and Elvis leads a totally encapsulated life. His managers and agents, headed by the ever-canny Colonel Tom Parker, would like to present the image of a monk in sideburns but, admits Elvis, "I have looked for years. I don't plan to become a Hollywood creation who has several marriages. I pray I will find the right girl and raise a little Elvis...
...Ever since, he has paid his own personal exterior decorators $3,000 a year to camouflage his phiz whenever he mingles with the public. Decked out in a false nose, mustache and beard, Floyd certainly doesn't look like Floyd. Autograph hunters keep thinking he's Thelonious Monk...