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...play moves like a storm between two anchoring calms. It begins in the cloistered serenity of a monastery in 1506, as Brother Martin kneels in submissive piety to receive the monk's habit of the Augustinian Order of Eremites. It ends 21 years later in a secularized cloister in Wittenberg with the married Luther, his fierce fires banked in domesticity, cradling his infant son as he walks the night much like any other father. In between are the earthquake blows with which Luther split the earthly crust of Christendom...
...vividly theatrical and sets the drama surging. It begins with a colorful scene of indulgence peddling, the churchly abuse that first roused Luther's ire. With drums beating, trumpets blaring and cash boxes gaping, the porcine, goggle-eyed monk Tetzel (Peter Bull) dips a grasping tentacle into every pocket as he makes a carnival-pitchman's promise of pardon for sins committed or intended by persons living or dead, provided one buys a letter of indulgence. After Luther nails his 95 theses to the Wittenberg door, he is summoned by the papal legate Cajetan (John Moffatt). Cajetan...
Karate as a discipline has much in common with gymnastics, Yoga, modern dance, and zen, tracing its ancestry back to the sixth century Buddhist monk, Bodhidharma. As a result, the breathing techniques and many of the exercises employed are identical to ones used in Yoga, and are very similar to exercises used in the other three disciplines...
Concerning the term "monk barbecue show," Viet Nam is a strange country where people often commit spectacular suicides before the gates of people whom they wish to curse. I find that custom barbaric. My aim was to try to stop the spreading of bad examples by ridiculing what I considered grotesque customs. I am stunned to see my well-intended purpose maliciously distorted by ill-intended elements who use my words to fit a false, ugly, obsolete and well-organized anti-Catholic propaganda which tries to present the Vietnamese people as an innocent Buddhist majority under a cruel dictatorship...
Over Radio Saigon, Thich Tinh Khiet, 80, head of the General Buddhist Association, pledged his loyalty to the government, but a newspaper picture cleared by inattentive censors showed the aged monk with a black eye and bruises all over his face. The government explained that he had fallen down. In other respects, censorship was stringent. In outgoing cables from newsmen, the word Catholic was blue-penciled; after passing the censors, one story referred to "Roman President Ngo Dinh Diem...