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...idea of an Evil Being is as basic as belief in a supreme God. Devils were a keystone of belief among the Aztecs, the Assyrians and the ancient Chinese. In the Buddhist scriptures, the Devil Mara appears at the head of an army of demons with "bodies of flame . .. with the skin of oxen, asses, boars . . . spitting snake venom-and swallowing balls of fire...
...strange film even by the standards of Japan (where it drew only enough business to meet its cost of $140,000), Rashomon opens in a ruined 8th century temple, where a woodcutter and a Buddhist priest, taking shelter from a lashing rain, ponder a bewildering crime that has shaken their faith in men. As they recount the crime to a cynical passerby, flashbacks picture the testimony at the trial and four differing re-enactments of the violent incident itself...
...scholars together is himself neither scholar nor scientist. Frederick Leon Kunz is a University of Wisconsin graduate who once headed a Buddhist college in Ceylon, later became a free-lance lecturer, and three years ago founded the Foundation for Integrated Education. The purpose of the foundation is to go deeper than any system of "general education." It is not enough, says Kunz, to dump a few facts from one field into another; it is far more important to go after the basic concepts behind the facts. As it is, most specialists don't even know what the score...
Bedizened with flags and bunting, the dredge Manhattan, a $600,000 gift to Siam from the ECA, last week lay alongside a Bangkok wharf. After yellow-robed Buddhist priests chanted prayers, Siam's Premier Phibun Songgram, clad in gleaming white, made a formal speech accepting the dredge from the U.S. Chargé d'Affaires. Grouped around Phibun were the fashionably dressed ladies & gentlemen of Bangkok's diplomatic corps. The first inkling of trouble came when a fluttery British lady in long gloves and a floppy picture hat was approached by a smooth-shaven young Siamese marine...
Last week, Premier Thakin Nu, a devout Buddhist, whom Burmese call "the man with the rosary" because he daily prays for peace, once more called for a halt to the "evil cult" of gun rule. In Rangoon, jeeps and Studebakers owned by Thakin Nu's partisans hustled voters through the driving rain to polling booths. Voting proceeded smoothly. The only untoward incident: in four of Rangoon's 106 polling places, poll watchers threw out all ballots because of a technical oversight-election officials had failed to stamp them with the required rhinoceros seal...