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...teenager, Weakland was torn between two vocations. After making a creditable soloist's debut, performing Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 with a local orchestra, he considered a musical career. Instead, he became a Benedictine monk at St. Vincent's Archabbey in Latrobe, Pa., in 1945. Nonetheless, he kept up his music, earning a master's degree in piano at New York City's Juilliard School and doing doctoral-level work in musicology at Columbia University. He also transcribed medieval works into modern notation for the Play of Daniel, a heralded music-drama introduced...
...joke, a monk, asked why he flagellates himself, replies, "Because it feels so good when I stop." The flagellant who would be an artist has a higher motive: "Because the welts I raise make such attractive and meaningful designs." After the Fall, whose original production opened the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center in 1964, is a 2½-hour act of flagellation in which Arthur Miller's whips sear his own flesh and that of anyone he touched or who touched him. Two decades later, in John Tillinger's streamlined, harrowing off-Broadway revival, the scars of passion...
...life," Miyake says, "not style out of style." The roots of that life are beautifully revealed in a series of candid photos put together almost like a jump-cut documentary on Tokyo street life, showing everyone from a roadworker wearing rubberized rain gear to a peddler, a Buddhist monk and a junk collector...
...court sentenced an Italian monk found in possession of alcohol to 25 lashes, 30 days in prison and a fine. Another decreed that a convicted thief should be hanged, his body publicly displayed for 30 minutes, then crucified. A third punished two men found guilty of shattering a victim's tooth by removing a tooth from each of the attackers. Such are the rulings that have characterized the first seven weeks since emergency courts were set up to enforce the Islamic law of Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiri. In September the President may make his system even more implacable, Western...
...Monk Dogen...