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...Gunton, a pair of young actors; and Carole Rothman, co-artistic director of the Second Stage, an off-off-Broadway company lodged in a 16th-floor penthouse apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. And lo, Viet Nam lives in Gray's nightmarishly funny vaudeville. A Buddhist monk sets himself ablaze; an Army lieutenant is shot in the back by his troops; a B-52 crashes in enemy territory; a Viet Nam village falls to guerrillas; Saigon orphans cry out in blind despair-and the effect is bracingly therapeutic. Talent does that, when it gels as it does...
Feldman plays the role of a Trappist monk who leaves the seclusion of the monastery to raise money to pay the mortgage. Along the way he encounters an unscrupulous traveling minister (Boyle), a "hooker with a heart of gold" (Lasser), and a corrupt, power-hungry TV evangelist named Armageddon T. Thunderbird (his initials are A.T.T...
...march of the mendicants still begins at dawn as the hollow clap of the temple bell calls Phnom-Penh's faithful to alms. But the city through which the saffron-robed monks walk is now littered with rubble. There is far less food. The silver bowls have been replaced by plastic ones, bought on the black market. Yet the ritual is more important than ever. "People have asked to revive this dawn rite so they can share the little they have in order to make merit," explains Tep Vong, the senior Buddhist monk in Kampuchea. "We are rebuilding...
...died in a London air raid early in World War II.) The Seven Storey Mountain was so circumspect about Merton's youthful sins that his later conversion seemed oddly lopsided. Furlong's exploration of the Cambridge episode reveals the secret, morally reckless side that the monk would later say "demands a whole life of penance." What distinguishes Merton, however, is more than the detailed portrait of his scandal-marred youth. The monk lived more than two decades after his early epic, and he died quite a different man from the one he first described. Furlong provides what Thomas...
Told by a monk in Rome that there existed a cultist trend called "Mertonism," he disowned followers with a fierce warning: "Anyone who imitates me does so at his own risk. I can promise him some fine moments of naked despair...