Word: tried
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps the most fascinating confrontation for this week's cover story was the meeting of correspondent and cover subject. "Why do you shave your head?" Tri Quang asked, staring at Frank McCulloch's gleaming pate. Frank said he looked worse with hair. Tri Quang marveled at Frank's close shave and inquired: "Doesn't it hurt you?" The monk drew out an electric razor and said with a smile: "I use this, but it doesn't give a very close shave." Then Tri Quang fixed McCulloch with a thoughtful stare and concluded the preliminaries with...
...Military Directory, headed by Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, had survived, but with lost face and a doubtful future. The U.S. would still be dealing with the Directory as it prepared to hold elections to give the country a civilian government. But Washington would have to pay increasing attention to Tri Quang, the infrangible Buddhist prelate who had emerged as the country's most astute and powerful politician (see THE WORLD...
...Viet Nam's most extraordinary men. As a result of the power and discipline he displayed in last week's events, one thing became eminently clear: South Viet Nam's political future for some time to come will be very much influenced by a servant of Buddha, the Venerable Tri Quang...
Lean, well-muscled, with a sensual electricity, in every gesture and blazing eyes that can mesmerize a mob, Thich Tri Quang, 42, has long been South Viet Nam's mysterious High Priest of Disorder. (Thich, pronounced tick, is a title meaning "venerable"; Tri Quang is pronounced tree kwong.) Wily and ruthless, Delphic and adept, he is the best of breed of a new kind of back room bonze. In the murky world of Oriental mysticism and Saigon's immemorial intrigue, these robed and shaven men have emerged as the new Machiavellis of the Vietnamese political scene. Tri Quang is unquestionably...
Like the legendary crane of Chinese mythology, Tri Quang throughout his career has largely managed to shroud himself from mortal view, appearing only now and then as an exclamation point to specific events. A master of means whose ends are obscure, he is, in maddening succession, devious, enigmatic, contradictory and blandly opaque. The only thing self-evident about him is his burning desire for power, his urgent ambition not only for himself but, presumably, for his people ?the Buddhists of South Viet...