Word: monke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dempsey presents an interesting moral conflict in his play. The plot concerns two teen-age gangs who are weary of the constant wars caused by the personal grudges of their leaders, "Dutch" and Monk." Monk's gang plans a sneak attack on Dutch's outfit. It takes the seemingly cowardly act of a member of Monk's gang, Pete, who rats to Dutch about the attack, to reconcile the two gangs...
Beer, tea-and coffeehouses loud with the sounds of Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie and Gerry Mulligan are sprouting like rice shoots in Japan's major cities. But Mama, Carrousel, Swing, or Fujiya Music Salon are nothing like Manhattan's Metropole or Birdland. Instead of the usual clutter of tables and clatter of highballs, Japan's hipsters sit in desklike seats set in rows of two, railroad-style, sipping their drinks in scholarly contemplation and rarely speaking, as jazz, either recorded or live, engulfs them in smoky parlors. Girls in the crowd affect tight toreador pants; the boys...
...teacher of yoga for the past 21 years, I was greatly pleased to learn that a Benedictine monk has written a book on the merits of yoga, which has so often been mistaken for a religion, especially by Catholics and hence rejected by them...
Thailand's ex-Premier P. Pibulsonggram, 63, onetime dictatorial Thai field marshal who was booted from power in 1957, was ordained as a Buddhist monk in Bodh Gaya, India. Father of six grown children, Pibulsonggram took an oath of celibacy before a golden image of Buddha. In keeping with Buddhist doctrine, he was not required to divorce his devoted wife, Mme. La-iad, a renowned feminist...
...years in Britain's Dulwich College and was considered of such small importance that the college did not even bother to catalogue it, The Fortune Teller belonged to a noble family of Lorraine that did not suspect the value of its treasure. Fourteen years ago a learned Benedictine monk "discovered'' the painting, noticed that it bore in the upper right-hand corner the bold and flourishing signature: "G. de La Tour Fecit Luneuilla Lother" (Luneville, Lorraine). The monk sent word to Paris, and the Louvre quickly offered to buy it. But the Louvre...