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...year-old former monk describes the destruction of a pagoda he had helped build in 1916, and a young man testifies to how successful the bombing was in driving the population out of Pathet Lao territory: "We saw that it wouldn't end, and we fled to the side of the government of Prince Souvanna Phouma, the Prime Minister. Because the war was so severe, we had to flee from our homes, rice fields and paddies, cows and buffalo and come here in poverty...
...times," said former Crimson lightweight Monk Terry, who'll stroke the eight, "it seemed as though Harry was really...
...century later, enter Father Albrecht of Cologne, a desiccated Benedictine monk, sent by Rome to restore to the church whatever wayward children he may find on the island. Somehow it all works. Part of the merit is in Author Schmitt's economy of words (her description of 11th century Christendom: "Purified to small purpose at great cost"). Part of it, too, is the tantalizing, gradually unfolded history of marooned St. Cyprian: the early, apocalyptic piety, the later license, the hallucinogenic crops, the bloody rage. And finally the second cataclysm: the shock of realization and rebirth when Father Albrecht arrives...
...finalists, and to an impartial observer, the roster does seem a little top-heavy with Harvard men. No less than 12 of the selectees rowed for Parker at one time or another at Cambridge. Six of them--Paul Hoffman, Cleve and Mike Livingston, Bill and Fritz Hobbs and Monk Terry--rowed at Mexico in one shell or another. Five more men--Dave Weinberg, Gene LaBarre, Dave Fellows, Dave Sawyier and Dave Mitchell--were members of this Spring's varsity eight. Tom Tiffany coxed the varsity in 1971, and two others, present lightweight varsity stroke Tony Brooks and Paul Wilson, also...
...left two years ago has since been eased. Some Jews, like the outstanding poet, Joseph Brodsky, are being pressured by officials to go to Israel, although they prefer to remain in Russia. Still, there are glimmerings. The controversial film Andrei Rublyov, based on the life of the 15th century monk who founded a new school of icon painting, was recently released after a six-year...