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...becomes more deeply involved in the lives of war refugees, the calm, breadth and mercy of Ch'an Buddhism more and more profoundly draw and disturb her. When monkish Lao Peng is so unlucky as to fall in love with her, that only makes things worse. Their difficulties are illuminated by several passages of straight theology which suggest how international is this war's religious revival...
...whom Ronald Balcom has been escorting when he wasn't with Lady Ashley. ∙∙ Greta Garbo, who started the long-lived longhair fad, had her locks cut to within three inches of their life, dyed them greenish-gold (with an aquamarine rinse), and tucked them into a monkish halo. ∙∙ Hedy Lamarr also had her long mane shortened, but only for private showing. ∙∙ Baby-faced Simone Simon joined the rush for U.S. citizenship, applied for her first papers...
Last week a small orchestra sat on the Town Hall stage, with most of the principal saints in evening dress, the chorus in monkish robes. After seven years Virgil Thomson's tunes still sounded engaging, well-made, occasionally trivial. The most charming aria was still that sung by St. Ignatius: "Pigeons on the grass alas. Short longer grass short longer shorter yellow grass," etc. But Four Saints in Three Acts still owed a lot to its original Cellophane...
...love, political conspiracy, seeking sanctuary against political or criminal punishment. They include several former Greek lunchroom proprietors who fled the clatter of U.S. civilization. They live in two kinds of monasteries: cenobite (communistic) and idiorrhythmic (allowing private property, which reverts to the monastery). Many of them lead a truly monkish life of prayer and Church scholarship, a shabby life without bathing or toothbrushing, with a meatless diet and only brief snatches of sleep, because "sleep inflames the body." They live on contributions and on the making and selling of wine, farm products, religious paintings and trinkets. Some are so ignorant...
...streamlined bit of old-world charm, the monastery is furnished with the ultra-modern frugality which is considered chic in profaner abodes. White stucco-walls of a peculiarly warm tone, a few austere paintings (not all religious), and plain dark furniture (not all antique) are as suitable to monkish taste as to "The Home Beautiful." The brothers' wholesome fare is supplied from a flashy kitchen with air exhaust, at a cost of 141/2 cents per meal (attention Harvard Dining Halls). Their cells are considerably smaller, but lighter and cleaner than those across Boylston Street. Enterprising fathers can climb...