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...standards less conservative than their 18th- and 19th century successors, Gutenberg based his early type (not included in this exhibit) on the black-letter style used by German scribes (see the banner of The Boston Globe and The New York Times). Others experimented with types that looked like the monk with quill calligraphy to which literate people were accustomed. Such types become known as italics. Still others imitated everyday handwriting, and a fourth group copied the sturdy, draftsmanlike formality of the letterforms from Roman columns...
Bebop: a revolution in two syllables. It jumped off of swing into the high ozone, on the wings of two unlikely angels, Gillespie and Charlie Parker. Together, and with the collaboration of a tight core of players like Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clarke and a few others, Dizzy and Bird drove jazz back into itself, straight through its heart and out again, sounding brand-new. Parker -- the racked jazz saint and junkie genius -- fit the hipster stereotype more than his good-timing, glad-handing buddy. But in matters of chops and talent, Gillespie played a supporting role...
Some scholars bridge the gap between religion and science in the mode of Gregor Mendel, the 19th century Austrian monk who discovered basic laws of heredity. Stanley Jaki of New Jersey's Seton Hall University is both priest and physicist. He believes that science can describe the Big Bang beginning of the universe but is incapable of fathoming the ultimate origins of matter and energy, which will always come under the realm of religion. George Coyne, a Jesuit astrophysicist who directs the Vatican Observatory, warns against reducing science to religion, or vice versa. For instance, when the Big Bang theory...
...primed for esoteric conversation. It is the rare chemistry concentrator who wants to discuss the poetry of the Tibetan monk Milarepa, but one should always be prepared...
Zazen, the act of meditation, is the most obvious characteristic of the Zen sect. It is not as initially calm and comfortable as monks make it look. Even the little pillows we squash under our squatting hinds can't alleviate the aches and numbness of 45 minutes of physical inactivity. Seigan, a monk from Brooklyn, NY, graced our buttbones with a special hint on how to fold the pillows just right, so that I could be content in my almost-Lotus position for a good 20 minutes before my sparkling clear concentration began to drift below...