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...composer will discover music as a mood, Blake concluded, so that a whole range of possibilities becomes possible. Blake finished his lecture by playing one of his own compositions on the piano, "Arlene," and said that his own favorite composer is Thelonius Monk...
...kite rises to celestial regions, My soul enters the abode of bliss. ?Buddhist monk, 9th century...
Read, son of the late art historian Sir Herbert Read, was previously known as a novelist (Monk Dawson, The Professor's Daughter, The Upstart). His new book is difficult to accept as either fact or fiction. First, there are the project's origins, described in Read's introduction: "Toward the end of April, 1976, a tall, well-dressed South African walked into the offices of the London publishers W.H. Allen and Co. and offered to sell them the confessions of the celebrated Great Train Robbers ... Reluctant to sign up the thieves without an author to write their...
...scientific truth too high a price to pay for sowing the agony of doubt in the minds of common folk? The Little Monk (Rudy Caringi) describes the pain his poor parents would suffer if the earth were no longer the center of the universe and man the paragon of God's eye: "There will be no meaning in their misery. Hunger will simply mean not having eaten, rather than being a test of strength. Hard work will simply be bending and lugging, and not be a virtue." To which Galileo replies: "I can see your people's divine...
...Name the first Buddhist monk to immolate himself in protest of the Ngo Dinh Diem regime...