Word: monke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peace prize will be awarded in absentia to Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk who has written widely about the moral issues of peace and war. Tickets are available at 44 Brattle...
...circle, a young Buddhist priest at noon squatted cross-legged in the traditional lotus position, pulled a plastic container of gasoline out of his cloth bag and soaked his lap. Then he struck a match to his brown robes. Flames burst over him. Grimacing but uttering no sound, the monk shriveled into a charred skeleton. After three minutes, his arms stiffened before him, and he pitched over. It was the sixth suicide by fire in the Buddhist struggle against President Ngo Dinh Diem...
...calumny" aimed at her homeland. She denied that her husband was head of the secret police, said that he has always helped the government without any compensation. Not only were her government's difficulties with the Buddhists created by the Communists, she said, but the first Buddhist monk who had burned himself alive had been drugged and the second clubbed into submission by fellow priests. Mme. Nhu also claimed that she had been misquoted when she allegedly called youthful U.S. military advisers in South Viet Nam "soldiers of fortune, adventurers, and saboteurs." What she had really said, she maintained...
...Monk's Cell...
...people who objected to the standard grey chairs did so with great gusto. "Any color but grey!" wrote one girl. "The room is like a monk's cell," said another girl, reacting apparently to the rather crude and unfinished appearance of the room...