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...Hours with Thelonious Monk (Riverside) is time exceptionally well spent with the ranking genius of jazz. On recordings made during his 1961 European tour, Monk runs through the core of his repertory (18 tracks on two LPs), but his message eludes his three breathless sidemen...
Criss-Cross (Columbia) presents Monk in even finer fettle, playing with the same group two years later. The apprenticeship with the master has enriched everyone's technique and understanding, and Monk's reconsiderations of some of his private standards (Crepuscule with Nellie, Rhythm-a-ning) prove the immense vitality of his imagination...
...Using their rifle butts as clubs, squads of tough, riot-trained "special forces" smashed into the pagoda, battering a path through a small guard of young Buddhist monks. The troopers had a list, and each monk on the list was considered to be a "Communist in disguise." On the temple's second floor, one monk tried to resist and was thrown bodily from a balcony to the courtyard 20 ft. below. Other monks and nuns were routed from behind a flimsy barricade of wooden benches and forced outside by tear gas and gunshots...
...last June was the first of five Buddhists to burn himself to death in pro test against the Diem government's anti-Buddhist drive. But the Buddhists managed to spirit out of the building the receptacle holding Quang Due's ashes. "The ashes are holy," said one monk. "We would give 15 lives to defend them." Two other monks escaped over the back wall of Xa Loi (pronounced sah loy) into the grounds of the adjoining U.S. Aid Mission, where they were given temporary sanctuary...
...Depravity. The Gnostics of early Christianity, who claimed to possess a "secret wisdom" left them by Jesus, argued that they were exempt from provisions of moral law, and for so believing were expelled from the church. The British monk Pelagius, who died around 418, in effect contended that man could achieve salvation by his own actions apart from God's gift of grace; he was formidably countered by St. Augustine of Hippo, who emphasized the utter depravity of man and the absolute necessity of Christ's death at Calvary for redemption...