Word: monke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tenor Saxophonist Sonny Rollins knows his way unerringly around the territory. He goes off like a firecracker in Miles Davis' Four, takes a postmeridian jaunt in John Lewis' Afternoon in Paris, nods to Charlie Parker in his dry-eyed blues Now's the Time, makes Thelonious Monk's 'Round Midnight sound fathoms deep...
Hunger of Sorts. At that very moment, before 100 newsmen, Buddhist Political Chief Thich Tam Chau announced that he and four other monks had decided to "fast to the death if necessary, to protest against the cruel Huong regime." The five, including Thich Tri Quang, firebrand leader of Buddhists in Hué, took up positions sitting or lying side by side inside Saigon's main pagodas. It was hardly a bed of nails. Their pallets were comfortable foam-rubber mattresses draped with mosquito netting. Beside the fasters were handy slices of fruit and glasses of pale, cold tea, prompting...
...monks' grandstand play was sufficient excuse for other bonzes to hit the streets at the head of supposedly incensed faithful. Nuns "fainted" before newsreel cameras-only to spring nimbly away before tear gas. Old women provided buckets of water in which monks dipped their skirts to wash out their eyes. A monk supposedly "stabbed" himself at a Buddhist school, but when carried out showed no visible wound...
...Buddhist monk could use self-cremation as the strongest form of protest," said Coffield in a farewell address to members of his former parishes. "I go into self-imposed exile as the strongest protest I can make. Emotionally, this is a tearing experience: on the one hand, not to feel in union with my cardinal whom I admire and love in so many ways; on the other hand, not to be permitted what I know Christ wants me so urgently to do-to be at the heart of the pain and suffering of the modern...
JAZZ: Big Band and Quartet in Concert (Columbia) shows off nine virtuosos, playing Monk, with Monk, at Philharmonic Hall. Dizzy Gillespie and the Double Six of Paris (Philips) combine acrobatic trumpeting and exhilarating scat singing, while on the dreamier side, there's Getz/Gilberto (Verve), the record that introduced the girl from Impanema. Coltrane's Sound (Atlantic) sounds great...