Word: waywardly
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...tamruat phra?literally, the monk police?are on the case. A force of about 160 clerics, they were formed 11 years ago to do battle against a rising tide of scandals engulfing the Buddhist clergy, known as the Sangha. Buddhist scholars say wayward monks make up only a tiny minority of the country's 300,000 clergymen. The damage they're doing to the faith, however, is so severe that Thailand's Supreme Patriarch, Somdech Phra Yanasangworn, appealed to the government last December for help to "save (Buddhism) from this serious crisis...
...occasional wayward tourist does catch sight of the sign and wander into the lecture demonstration prep shop, requesting to see “those hysterical scientific instruments,” Shaban says. It’s more than an occasional annoyance, for the staff of the department, though. “We once painted over the sign when we got tired of people asking to see the hysterical instruments,” Shaban bemoans. Apparently, though, nerds rule in the lecture demonstration department—the sign has been restored...
...perfect subject for a reverent Hollywood bio-pic. That won't happen, for one reason: no actor today could match the breadth of Robeson's talents, the pull of his charisma, the solitude of his pioneering outsider status. Or the depth of his fiery, finally wayward commitment...
...highly seductive about him," says Bullock, who attended seminary with Shanley. In the 1970s Shanley grew thick sideburns and wore overalls. He gave irreverent lectures about the foolishness of the drug war and the normalcy of bisexuality. And most of all, he made it his lifetime pursuit to help wayward children, running a special ministry for teenagers who had run away or were confused about their sexuality. In a 1970 letter to the Archdiocese, one thankful parishioner wrote: "They flock around him as if he is the Pied Piper...[It's] a feeling of, 'When I am with Father Paul...
...semi-phenomenon that is “Sex and the (Elm) City,” the Yale Daily News’ weekly sex column. Increasingly, Krinsky’s column—which began running this fall—serves the college masses as a sexual bible, (re)introducing wayward undergrads to the joys of doing it right and doing it often...