Word: monke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kachins, the Christian Chins-and by Buddhists in separatist-minded Karen and Shan states. But the amendment passed by a landslide 324-to-28 vote. Before he left for the neutralist meeting in Belgrade, ascetic Prime Minister U Nu, who three years ago took the vows of a Buddhist monk, pronounced the decision "the noblest deed, the greatest deed for Buddhists...
...style: its roots go variously to ancient Rome, to the art of the barbarians, to Byzantium, and to the palaces of the Moors. But for all its diversity, it had one central inspiration. Over 900 years ago, commenting on the surge of building that had swept over Europe, a monk named Glabro said: "It is as if the world, shaking itself from its ancient garb, had redressed itself in the white mantle of the new churches...
...Friends. But the U.S. could not drop its French allies in the midst of a shooting war. Disheartened, Ngo Dinh Diem departed for Belgium to take up a monk's bleak life as a lay member of a Benedictine monastery in Bruges...
Dominant Preoccupation. Osborne is not to be faulted for working that line into his text, nor for devoting one passage to the information that the monk was sitting in a privy when he reached some of his major intellectual conclusions. In Osborne's portrait, however, these preoccupations are so recurrent that they dominate the texture of the play and become its central image. "Papal decretals are the devil's excretals," cries John Osborne's monk in a burst of rhyme. Throughout the evening, it seems, scarcely two minutes are permitted to go by in which Luther does...
...Simply glance at it you grovel/Hand and foot in Belial's gripe," the monk goes on to say in Robert Browning's poem, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, about an otherwise unidentified book...