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...English novelist with a specialty: exposing false innocents. He writes cool little horror stories about decent, well-intentioned people who suddenly find themselves up to their lily-white necks in evil. Good but tragically unaware Germans before World War II (The Junkers), for instance. Or the rich English boy (Monk Dawsori) who sets out to be a saint, rather as if he were joining a club. Almost sinisterly quiet in tone, Read is a sad, skilled connoisseur of the moral blindness that occurs when self-righteousness and self-interest...
...right field however, was the best entertainer of the team. Dan "The Monk" DeMichele brought cheers from Cooch Owen and Company in the bleachers every time he took a step. Oh, perhaps he did get caught at second several times when the crowd egged him into trying to stretch a single into a double. But DeMichele and his non-matching pair of golf gloves led the team with 27 RBI's and hit over 300 for the third consecutive year...
...ascendance and leaves little solace or purpose to the individual. Bergman's actress-heroine is not able to portray the theatrical tragedy of Electra while horrifying war is waged in a country far distant from neutralist Sweden. Alma turns on her TV set, and the immolation of a Buddhist monk produces her own agony...
...temple was divided into two parts, a building containing ritual objects and images for worship, and adormitory building in which the temple's 75 monks slept. I was taken into the dormitory section and brought to the room of the monk I had met outside who became my host. I slept on the floor on a straw mat between two bunk beds. My host, who spoke fairly good English, explained the customs of his temple so I could follow them while I stayed there. At 5 am, everyone gets up, bathes, and begs for alms at houses throughout the city...
...host was 25 and had been a monk or four years. Before htat he had trained as an acolyte for seven years. He told me that he planned to quit being a monk when he turned 30-a common practice in Lao Bud-dhism...