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DIED. Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., 60, audacious faker and inspiration for the 1960 movie The Great Impostor; of a heart attack; in Anaheim, Calif. Although he never finished high school, Demara successfully masqueraded as a Trappist monk, college philosophy teacher, cancer researcher, deputy prison warden and Canadian naval surgeon aboard a destroyer during the Korean War. His surgical feats, learned from textbooks, earned public praise that, in turn, led to his unmasking...
Similar effort at reaching out has characterized Sheppe's off-campus activities. An old teacher at Exeter told Sheppe to be sure to look up a friend of his in Cambridge upon his arrival here; the friend was a monk at the Society of St. John the Evangelist, a monastery on Memorial Drive just past the Kennedy School. The two hit it off, and since that time Sheppe has become friendly with all the SSJE brothers, regularly attending services at their chapel and dining with them. He describes his relationship with the brothers as "definitely more social than religious...
...trekked to 212 countries and territories, often lugging bulky statistical histories, occasionally confronting suspicious customs agents, frequently phoning his team of 21 editors and consultants around the world. He also tapped some 500 local experts in various countries (100 of whom required strict confidentiality, including a worried Roman Catholic monk stationed in a ferociously Muslim nation in the Middle East...
DIED. Carl Orff, 86, German composer who turned his back on complex modern styles to fashion a highly personal idiom of folklike melodies and elemental rhythms; in Munich. In Carmina Burana, a 1936 cantata based on writings collected by a 13th century Benedictine monk, Orff used simple, vigorous tunes and choral chants to celebrate the joys of food, drink and love. He pared down to an even more stylized primitivism in his Antigonae (1947-48) and Oedipus der Tyrann...
...Milan apartment, on a dead-end street only a short walk from his office in Palazzo Durini, is a sort of luxury-class version of a Japanese monk's cell. He shares the seven rooms with a gray Persian cat named Micio. Except for Micio and a Japanese screen, practically everything in the living area was designed by Armani himself, who is mulling over the addition of furniture to his assorted ventures. Certainly the low couches and chairs here, all covered with satinized cotton, and the sculpted rectangular table in a favorite Armani shade of taupe, represent a strong...