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This helpful hint is offered by a 12th century bestiary, compiled by an anonymous monk and dusted off by British Novelist T. H. White (The Sword in the Stone). The work is a charming illustration of how medieval man's other-worldly eye rested on the wonders of nature. As natural history, the book shows astonishingly small powers of observation of even familiar barnyard animals ("the virility of horses is extinguished when their manes are cut"). Armchair hunters will be pleased to read that lions use their long tails to rub out their tracks, that when an elephant pair...
Troikas & Sapphires. That is fact, but in much of Rubinstein's biography the New York police found it hard to separate fact from fabrication. He was born in St. Petersburg where his father, he said, was financial adviser to the monk Rasputin-a background hardly calculated to recommend Serge to the business world; it was as if a clergyman told his colleagues that his father used to be chaplain to King Kong...
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 11:--If Harvard 1 is not the skull-lined study of a medieval monk, Professor Charles H. Taylor at least creates the appropriate atmosphere when he gives the "Intellectual History of Europe, 500 to 1300." St. Augustine should confess to an appreciative audience in History 121b...
...Realist. In Kyoto, Japan, unfrocked for working in a pinball parlor and pawning temple images, Buddhist Monk Sabaichi Okuno remarked: "Even a monk...
Into a Buddhist temple on the outskirts of Seoul stumped Korea's leathery old President Syngman Rhee for a quick look around. He peeked into the tile-roofed monk's residence attached to the temple, and was scandalized to find a woman asleep. It was his wife, explained the monk, and there were four children. "I thought," snapped Rhee, "that Buddhist monks are supposed to be unmarried. How long has this been going on?" The embarrassed man muttered the classic excuse: "All the monks are doing...