Word: monke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pogrom by the Sea. The Buddhists started yelling that the new government setup denied them sufficient authority, particularly since their man, General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, had been ousted as nominal chief of state. Although they had little cause for complaint under Buddhist Khanh's rule, the monks now claimed that too many of Diem's old followers remained in the government. Busily stirring up ancient hatreds between the two faiths was Thich Tri Quang, the monk who enjoyed refuge in the United States embassy last year-an ambitious, probably neutralist and possibly pro-Communist intriguer...
...Nevertheless they slipped up: the Lord's Prayer still goes, "Thy kingdom come." Other parts have a ring of transliteration, rather than translation, from Latin. "Priests who translate the Mass have a tendency to use Latin derivatives, whereas Anglo-Saxon is generally shorter and sharper," said one Benedictine monk...
...against Dixieland and swing. As a result, such dated numbers as When the Saints Go Marchin In and Sixteen Tons are now popular in Russia. Yet the Soviet music masters could not bring themselves to permit Russian musicians to play kholodny or cool dzhaz-the progressive sound of Thelonious Monk and Stan Getz, much admired by many Russians who hear it on the Voice of America or on smuggled records...
Praise from Country Priests. Since leaving the Dominican order, Hermand has worked part-time as an accountant while studying for a degree in psychology. A TIME correspondent found him sitting in a small, stark, rented room that resembles a monk's cell. A few books lay on an oak table; there was an iron bed, a worn pair of slippers tucked underneath. A tall, narrow, curtainless window looked out on a garden where a summer rain pelted the leaves of a great elm. Rubbing his bald head, Hermand reminisced...
...abbot was the embodiment of a militant monk. History records that he begged the King to go on a crusade. Hoving concludes that Samson might well have commissioned the cross. Perhaps he was the abbot whom Chaucer mocked in his Prioress's Tale for his false piety over a murder...