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Thomas Merton, who accomplished the only-in-America oxymoronic feat of becoming a celebrity Trappist monk (his memoir, The Seven Storey Mountain, was a best seller in 1948), fathered a child out of wedlock before taking his vows; later, as a middle-aged hermit with a taste for bourbon, he had a brief love affair with a nurse. Walker Percy drank too much. Poor Flannery O'Connor, crippled by lupus, dead at 39, sometimes sounded alarmingly like a racial bigot...
...support of the Office of the Arts comes the Harvard Jazz Bands with guest artists Dave Douglas on trumpet, Roswell Rudd on trombone, Charles Kohlhas on saxophone, Barry Altschul on drums and Brad Jones on bass. The musicians will be performing works by Herbie Nichols, Mary Lou Williams, Thelonious Monk, Dave Douglas, Roswell Rudd, in addition to original works by Harvard students. Jazz Programs at Harvard were founded in 1971 to recognize significant contributors to jazz and to bring the genre to the general public. Saturday, April 12 at 8 p.m. Tickets $15 general; $8 for students and senior citizens...
...cited the tale of 12th century monk Eversham Abbey, who was said to have seen Christ bloody in heaven and attempting to drink his own blood while in a trance...
...That the monk would dare to swallow Christ’s blood, that this act would engender joy and the notion that Christ would be bloody and disfigured in heaven, she said, testifies to the violent turn religion took during the Middle Ages...
...everywhere." Since then, Murdoch has chosen not to irritate the Communist Party. In 1999 he ordered HarperCollins, News Corp.'s publishing arm, to drop a book by former Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten because it was critical of Beijing and, shortly after, dismissed the Dalai Lama as an old monk "shuffling around in Gucci shoes...