Word: monke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other words, Compulsory Miseducation contends that American education is living some kind of lie, that the king has no clothes. Goodman wants to begin by junking the whole thing. But this is obviously impractical. And the term "school monk" is a pretty stupid smear. Education has some good men, even some great men. All of them "school monks in an Organized System"? Hardly...
...Manhattan music lover, it seemed the next thing to it. It had been eight years since Violinist Jascha Heifetz, 63, retired from the concert stage, grumbling that "It requires the nerves of a bullfighter, the vitality of a woman who runs a nightclub, and the concentration of a Buddhist monk." It had been seven years since his fellow Russian, Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, 61, was last heard in Manhattan...
...Scared. For a moment, the audience was stunned. Then 5,000 jazz cats rose in a thunderous ovation that they had not accorded Ellington or Dizzy Gillespie, or even Thelonious Monk. Face dripping rivulets of sweat and all but in tears, Mingus embraced his men one by one. But as the applause thundered on, he just prowled back and forth across the stage. Never once did he look at the cheering crowd. "I couldn't, man, I was scared," he said later...
...World War II, later became French High Commissioner to Indo-China, a post in which he so relentlessly pressed the fight against Communist guerrillas, scorning all talk of negotiation in Paris, that he was recalled in 1947, whereupon he quit public life in disgust and returned to his monk's habit; of a heart attack; in a monastery near Brest, France...
Endless Disunity. The key to whether Khanh survives is, of course, the Buddhist hierarchy, which influences a majority of the populace. And it seemed impossible to satisfy the monks. They wanted more and more concessions. But hardly was one demand met when the Buddhist clergy whipped out another. At week's end, for example, they were clamoring for the head of the national police chief, who they said should be fired for having arrested Buddhists during the riots. Saigon's head monk, Thich Tarn Chau, handed the government his umpteenth ultimatum: If all Buddhist grievances were not resolved...