Word: asceticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To train a Jesuit under the militant principles laid down by Ignatius Loyola,* requires 15 years from the time the candidate leaves high school. West Baden College, primarily a graduate school of science and philosophy, will take Jesuit scholastics after they complete two years of ascetic theology and two of...
When the scraggly-mustached, ascetic General took charge, Japan's tiger was so restive that petty naval officers assassinated Premier Ki Inukai because they considered him a pacifist (TIME, May 23, 1932). Trusting General Araki, the fighting services who despise and hate all Japanese politicians, then settled down to...
None of the many books about Brahms has succeeded in portraying him as other than a stuffy, big-bearded German who, as composers go, led an ascetic, uneventful life and by some freak of nature managed to write some of the world's greatest music. This week in a...
Author Schauffler stresses the fact that Brahms had a strong peasant streak which accounted for his constant use of folk-songs, for the terseness and simplicity of much of his music, for the peasantlike economy with which he used the same themes over and over again, elaborating on them with...
Max Nomad contributes a study of that very ascetic revolutionary, Sergei Nechayev, who went the gamut from Bakunin to Blanqui, and only twice spoke at a students' meeting. Nomad does not enter what must seem to a casual observer the most fertile of all fields of inquiry, the posterity of...