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...years ago, Ceylon's Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike bowed respectfully before a Buddhist monk among the crowd of petitioners gathered on his veranda, in return got a blast of four bullets in his body. He clung to life long enough to utter a last request. "I appeal to all concerned to show compassion to this man and not to try and wreak vengeance on him," he said, and died...
Casting about for a triggerman, he happened on Talduwe Somarama, who was both a monk and a practicing ophthalmologist. As a Buddhist, Somarama was exasperated at the Prime Minister's delay in fulfilling his campaign promises to Buddhism. As an ophthalmologist, he was anxious to have his contract at the State Indigenous Hospital renewed, and therefore needed Buddharakitha's good offices, for the widow Wijewardene had put the high priest on the hospital's appointment board. Plainly, Somarama was Buddharakitha...
...Paolo's Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise, a nonviolent exile in which the principals appear to have shed everything, including expressions of remorse. Of the relatively few El Grecos in the U.S., the chosen canvas is not an anguished saint or sinner, but a corpulent Trinitarian monk at ease in an armchair...
After her first Monday's hunt, she was invited to cook steaks over the living-room fire at the home of her neighbor. Paul Fout, who sells hunters and rides amateur races. Other guests included Nelson ("Monk") Noland of Warrenton, who owns the Fauquier Laundry; James (Jim) Wiley of Middleburg, who breeds and raises thoroughbreds at Benton Farm near Middleburg; and Mrs. Magalen Crane of The Plains, who hunts with Orange County...
...Monk Noland says that he used to squire Jackie around. Jim Wiley is a drawly Virginian, and sells his yearlings at Saratoga for enormous prices. Eve Fout was skiing in Switzerland at the time of the steak roast, but has since returned. She is, probably, Mrs. Kennedy's closest friend down here. Eve paints and sells traditional horse pictures, shows horses, and is one of the district commissioners of the Orange County-Middleburg U.S. Pony Club, into which Caroline will no doubt be absorbed...