Word: monke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fanatic Monk. Prime Minister Mrs. Bandaranaike took charge of Ceylon's destinies last summer after an election campaign largely given over to tearful eulogies of her much-loved husband, Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, who, after three years as Prime Minister, was assassinated in 1959 by a fanatic Buddhist monk. The widow brought to her job a mystical devotion to the vaguely left-wing ideals of her slain husband, as well as a deep Buddhist piety, personal honesty and considerable intelligence. She has also proved surprisingly tough, refusing to back down in the face of opposition, and ruthlessly whipping...
...fraught with hostility. It's great to bust a board instead of a head." Board busting with the naked hand is a spectacular but comparatively recent demonstration of karate (literally, empty hands). Legend holds that the sport was started in the 6th century by an Indian Buddhist monk named Daruma Taishi, who taught it to Chinese monks. It was refined on Okinawa after 1600, introduced in the 1920s to Japan, where it quickly shared popularity with the gentle art of jujitsu and its systematized variation, judo. But where their aim is to use an opponent's own weight...
Rosenberg excavates two late eighteenth century novels, Lewis' The Monk and Godwin's St. Leon, which portray the isolated Jew as black magician, and traces their lineage from Cartaphilus to DuMaurier's Svengali. In Trilby "the myths of Judas and of Cartaphilus met in the figure of a Victorian bogey-hypnotist...
...that they would be back together soon. The details of Bruce Olmstead's confinement were not encouraging: "I am kept alone in a cell but am not being abused." Prison, he wrote, "has pretty well shown me that I couldn't quite make it as a cloistered monk. I am given cigarettes, hon, and filters at that. But, oh my, how I long for a good old American cigarette . . . And I must confess that I wouldn't be averse to a martini...
...movie, like the Festival, is a potpourri, ranging from Louis Armstrong's Dixieland Blues to the esoteric West Coast sound of Chico Hamilton. Jimmy Guiffre does his best piece, "The Train and the River," aided by Bob Brookmeyer. Thelonious Monk crashes through "Blue Monk." Anita O'Day does two vocals in her most irresistible manner, and Dinah Washington offers "All of Me," which is a bit too much for anyone to take...