Word: monkish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...After four days of dillydallying, the shaky government coalition led by Prime Minister Seni Pramoj, 71, decided to resign, as accusations of government indecisiveness continued to mount. But then, in a by-now characteristic move for Seni, the Prime Minister announced that he would stay on after all. The monkish former marshal continued to walk the streets, rice bowl in hand, asking for alms and keeping his political plans, whatever they might be, to himself...
...form of the word appears in Act I, Scene 3, and it recurs like the tolling of a melancholy bell. Duke Vincentio (William Hutt) has decided to cede his authority for a while to his austere deputy, the rectitudinous Angelo (Brian Bedford). As the lordly duke dons monkish attire (he will seem to be a friar), he implies that he is testing Angelo: "Hence shall we see,/ If power change purpose, what our seemers be." Initially, Angelo acts as severely as we would expect. He condemns Claudio (Stephen Macht) to be executed for the crime of fornication. When Claudio...
...have changed in the brief span of one year. While brothers and sisters are struggling through some serious negotiations at Brown University, The Harvard Crimson is spending its time defending the lackadaisical minority recruitment effort ("We can't find anybody"), and the Administrative Board is laboring over a monkish set of Noise Rules that could snuff out any "disturbances during the day that would hamper study or contemplation...
Executive Producer Sidney Glazier saw to it that the contest is played out against the right backdrop: Irish locations, filmed lovingly by Gerry Fisher, and a cast of splendid faces, as hard and gnarled as blackthorn walking sticks. As directed by Jack Gold, Catholics fairly aches with monkish verisimilitude. When Kinsella's arrival at the abbey prompts Father Manus (a delightful cameo by Cyril Cusack) to rustle up a feast of fresh salmon, the viewer can almost taste...
Sarris simply hasn't written much at all lately, and what he has written has been listless at the core. You could once imagine his effusions as if they emerged from a fevered monk of an arcane order. They now seem merely monkish. And the decline can be attributed both to the burning out of an inherently neurotic talent, and the barrenness of Sarris's critical dogmas...