Word: monke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SPAIN. Old World elegance in breezy modern decor. Murals by avant-garde artists grace the interior, a bronze monk by Sculptor Pablo Serrano stands in the garden. The art gallery displays old masters, modern masters and, perhaps, future masters. Three Picassos, a Miro and two Dalis counterpoint Goya's majas and works by El Greco, Ribera and Velasquez...
Later, 2,000 Buddhists marched to a Saigon pagoda to mark the anniversary of the immolation of Thich Quang Due, the aged monk who was the first to burn himself alive in last summer's wave of anti-Diem Buddhist sacrifices. Hours before the service, a towering statue of Buddha on the banks of the Saigon River suddenly blazed up in flames. Within minutes, an awed crowd had gathered, murmuring that surely a miracle had occurred to commemorate Thich Quang Due's sacrifice. As it turned out, however, the statue was made of highly inflammable plastic...
...Hooly Monke. While medieval monasteries waxed rich in land holdings, Bury St. Edmunds had fallen deeply into debt to Jewish moneylenders at the end of the 12th century. Then a strong, stubborn monk, appropriately named Samson, became abbot shortly after a young boy was found murdered. The Jews were blamed. Eight years later 57 Jews were massacred in the town. Samson got the King to expel the Jews from Bury St. Edmunds, and shortly cleared the abbey's debt, wresting back the glory that the monastery once enjoyed...
...true that Candy, Mephesto the mad professor, Irving Krankheit the mad psychiatrist (author of Masturbation Now!), a mad Buddhist monk, and several other off-white slaverers at whom she throws herself, have as much fun as a barrel of impure-minded monkeys. But the result is not uproarious enough to require comparison to Byron (as one critic has suggested), unless you have something against Byron...
Late in the Game. Of particular concern to the U.S. embassy-where he enjoyed asylum for several weeks last year-is Thich Tri Quang, a frail, hot-eyed monk who heads the Institute of Buddhist Clergy. Quang has managed to confuse everyone about his political loyalties, but he masterminded last summer's Buddhist strategy against Diem and is now thought to be a leader of the militant monks exhorting Buddhists to "assert" themselves. What worries the U.S. is the possibility that they will assert themselves for neutralism-and the question of why they have failed to assert themselves against...