Word: asceticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Train. The setting is occupied Paris in August 1944. With the Allied liberation at hand, an ascetic Nazi colonel (Paul Scofield) orders his troops into the Jeu de Paume Museum to crate up Van Goghs, Utrillos, Manets, Cezannes, Picassos-altogether some 1,200 impressionist and postimpressionist canvases, destined for...
It concerns the life of Siddhartha from the time of his departure from home to his ascent to Buddhahood. He tries to attain satisfaction in ascetic life, in erotic love, and in business. He is accused by the "League" of "dividing his life ...of failing to perceive unity." He does...
Trial of Joan of Arc. With the exception of Carl Dreyer's silent classic The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), the numerous films about the martyred Maid of Orleans have contributed very little to art and less to the box office. The subject thus seems a natural for...
Princely Ascetic. Are Tri Quang and the other Buddhist leaders naive or villainous, or both? Are they merely inconsistent in the grand Vietnamese fashion? Are they nationalists or Communist dupes? Whatever the answer, much of it lies embedded in the myriad traditions of a great faith?noble, puzzling to the...
Long the Reddest, deadest corpse in the Soviet satellite closet, East Germany showed faint stirrings of unnatural life last week. East German guards were busy knocking a 5-by-9-ft. hole in the Wall as officials of both Germanys signed a pass agreement permitting West Berliners to visit relatives...