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Word: unmonkish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1947-1947
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...influx has brought problems. Pickpockets (mostly adolescent) are a nuisance. Pimps and prostitutes are on the increase. A score are arrested daily and one bold baggage was caught with a monk who had rented a hotel room for an unmonkish purpose. On West Lake, that lovely shallow blue pool, girt by green hills, watched by graceful pagodas and crossed by willow-draped causeways and moon-bridges, sampans drift full of rubber-necking tourists, earnest young intellectuals, tired officials and fat merchants on holiday. Lolling in one, with the tolling bells of distant temples in your ears and a book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A REPORTER AMONG THE POETS | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

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