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...leagues came to a quiet close yesterday, the 'A' League winner having been decided earlier in the week. Leverett trounced Adams in both the 'A' and 'B' leagues by scores of 63 to 48, and 30 to 13, respectively. High scorer in the 'A' league for the Bunnies was Monk Meyers with 14 tallies...
Bishop Le Huu Tu is an interesting personality; for 17 of his 54 years he was a Trappist monk. He has black eyebrows and protruding teeth. When he smiles, revealing a dazzling expanse of teeth and pink gums, and his long, bony hands flutter sensitively, he suddenly becomes transfigured into a man of charm and considerable magnetism. In 1945, before his rebellion, Communist Boss Ho Chi Minh named Bishop Tu "Supreme Counselor." "Being Supreme Counselor to Ho Chi Minh," explains Tu suavely, "was only an expedient. I realized from the first that he was Communist, but I used to tell...
Worshipers at the cathedral of Notre Dame last Easter were shocked by a young man in the robes of a Dominican monk, who stormed the pulpit and shouted "God is dead!" (TIME, April 17). Paris psychiatrists took him over from the police for examination and the current issue of the English-language literary journal, Transition, carries the psychiatrists' report. Samples of the report's psychiatric word-weaving...
...Century, is considered one of the strictest in the Roman Catholic Church. Unlike the Trappists, who live and work together in silence, the Carthusians spend most of their time in complete solitude. Carthusian monasteries, which the British call "charter houses," are constructed around a cloister, on which opens each monk's individual house with his private walled garden. The houses are small but include a room for eating, a room for sleeping, a study and a chapel. Each monk has a woodworking shop in which he may spend a recommended half-hour of diversion each day working with...
...Each monk devotes as much as 14 hours of each day to prayer, including the daily Mass and the offices, some of which he sings with his brother monks in the monastery chapel. Each sleeps some seven hours-half in the evening and half in the early morning. The two daily meals, silently delivered to each house by a lay brother, make a frugal diet: rice or beans, eggs or fish, fruit, bread and water or wine is the main meal. From September to Easter the second meal consists only of bread and water...