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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beloved Husband. Prime Minister Sirimavo is the weeping widow of a much-loved man. Solomon West Ridgeway Bias Bandaranaike, known to all Ceylon as "Banda," who ruled Ceylon for three years as a benevolently bumbling leftist, then was shot to death last September by a Buddhist monk. When elections were called for March, the hack politicians of Banda's Sri Lanka Freedom Party paraded his widow about the country not as a candidate but as a figurehead, and backed her up with the dead man's recorded speeches. Sri Lanka nonetheless managed to get only enough seats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEYLON: Tearful Ruler | 8/1/1960 | See Source »

This yoga position, called "Reintegration," is recommended by a new sort of yogi. Not only a Westerner but a Benedictine monk, Father J.M. Dechanet found in yoga a valuable approach to Christian prayer and practice. Last week his book, Christian Yoga (Harper; $3.75), was on U.S. bookstands, complete with nihil obstat and imprimatur. Father Dechanet, 54, now prior of the Monastery of Saint-Benoit at Kansenia in the new Congo republic, has already found a following for his ideas in France among Christians who admire the physical and psychological disciplines of the East without accepting its negative and impersonal theology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Christian as Yogi | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

...floors consist of 100 cells in a double row of matchboxes-one to a monk. Each is a narrow, barely furnished room of white granular cement applied with a high-pressure hose; each is 7 ft. 5 in. high (Corbusier's standard human measure-the height of a man with his arms raised); each has its own balcony, separated from its neighbor by solid concrete partitions. Monks reach their cells from the lower floors by means of a corridor with walls that grow increasingly somber as the men approach their devotional solitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Monks in Concrete | 6/27/1960 | See Source »

Jazz on a Summer's Day. During 85 woolly minutes at the Newport Jazz Festival, a novice director gives his audience some solid sound, and a way-in view of the way out: Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan and like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Jun. 6, 1960 | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

Jazz on a Summer's Day. During 85 woolly minutes at the Newport Jazz Festival, first-time Director Bert Stern gives his audience some solid sound, and a way-in view of the way out: Thelonius Monk, Gerry Mulligan and like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, may 30, 1960 | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

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