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Beloved Husband. Prime Minister Sirimavo is the weeping widow of a much-loved man. Solomon West Ridgeway Bias Bandaranaike, known to all Ceylon as "Banda," who ruled Ceylon for three years as a benevolently bumbling leftist, then was shot to death last September by a Buddhist monk. When elections were called for March, the hack politicians of Banda's Sri Lanka Freedom Party paraded his widow about the country not as a candidate but as a figurehead, and backed her up with the dead man's recorded speeches. Sri Lanka nonetheless managed to get only enough seats...
This yoga position, called "Reintegration," is recommended by a new sort of yogi. Not only a Westerner but a Benedictine monk, Father J.M. Dechanet found in yoga a valuable approach to Christian prayer and practice. Last week his book, Christian Yoga (Harper; $3.75), was on U.S. bookstands, complete with nihil obstat and imprimatur. Father Dechanet, 54, now prior of the Monastery of Saint-Benoit at Kansenia in the new Congo republic, has already found a following for his ideas in France among Christians who admire the physical and psychological disciplines of the East without accepting its negative and impersonal theology...
...floors consist of 100 cells in a double row of matchboxes-one to a monk. Each is a narrow, barely furnished room of white granular cement applied with a high-pressure hose; each is 7 ft. 5 in. high (Corbusier's standard human measure-the height of a man with his arms raised); each has its own balcony, separated from its neighbor by solid concrete partitions. Monks reach their cells from the lower floors by means of a corridor with walls that grow increasingly somber as the men approach their devotional solitude...
Jazz on a Summer's Day. During 85 woolly minutes at the Newport Jazz Festival, a novice director gives his audience some solid sound, and a way-in view of the way out: Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan and like that...
Jazz on a Summer's Day. During 85 woolly minutes at the Newport Jazz Festival, first-time Director Bert Stern gives his audience some solid sound, and a way-in view of the way out: Thelonius Monk, Gerry Mulligan and like that...