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...episode, about how the French were driven out in 1954, is enhanced by extraordinary footage obtained from the Communist government in Hanoi of the battle for Dien Bien Phu. The third hour, about American support for, and eventual abandonment of, Ngo Dinh Diem, includes horrific scenes of a Buddhist monk setting himself ablaze as a protest against Diem's government, followed by a clip of Diem's sister-in-law Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu sneering at the monk for using "imported gasoline." President John Kennedy is shown saying in September 1963, " "It is their war. The [South Vietnamese...
DURING THE VIETNAM ERA the would viewed Indochina through a blood-spattered lens crammed with searing images: napalmed and massacred villagers: a defiant Buddhist monk remaining upright during the final stages of self-immolation; a Vietcong suspect being shot point-blank through the temples; Khmer Rouge soldiers axing civilians; a widow wailing over a body...
LIKE THE WORK of P.D.Q. Bach, The Name of the Rose is supposedly the long lost manuscript of an unknown, in this case an unknown monk. Nor does the comparison end there: like its musical counterpart which combines serious composition with more popular and humorous melodies, this book presents accurate history, philosophy, and semiotics in the form of a good old mystery novel and one not entirely devoid of humor at that...
...Name of the Rose is fundamentally a detective story whose unlikely protagonists are a Franciscan monk and his young novice. Also, who records the events. The pair resembles Sherlock Holmes and the beloved if befuddled Dr. Watson and it is probably no accident that the elder monk is named William of Baskerville (recalling a canine adventure of the more contemporary sleuth). William also indulges in both the same stimulants and the irreverent cynicism favored by the later Holmes. The confines of a medieval monastery, with its many regulations, restrictions and mystical devotion, prove to be the ideal setting...
...letter to the Editors, his dismay at the disrespect shown him and his abbot by certain students, presumably Harvard students, and how he indicted the entire University for intolerance and disregard for the ancient traditions of the Greek Orthodox Church. Now I am likewise a "traditionalist" Greek Orthodox monk, dressed in the manner of Hieromonk Auxentios. For over 12 years I have been visiting Harvard's sundry libraries, and therefore its campus, and never once have I encountered any of the hostilities decried by Fr. Auxentios. On the contrary, from the students, professors, and employees of the University I have...