Word: asceticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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To be fair, this is where Shaw's inspiration thins out too. In a final peroration, Lilith-lyrically evoked by Joan Plowright-broods on the results of human history and concludes: "It is enough that there is a beyond." It may be enough for Lilith, but it is not...
That is what inspires Chavez's devotion to la causa. For years he and his wife and eight children have lived jammed into a tiny two-bedroom house in Delano, subsisting on $10 a week from the union and on food from the communal kitchen in nearby union headquarters. Chavez...
The impulse was not particularly puritanical, at least in its early stages. There may have been an ascetic tradition in the monasteries, but Irish behavior at wakes, centuries before they had learned to sublimate with Guinness, was so obscene that the chroniclers (unfortunately) blush to describe it. We do know...
An August 75. Surrounded by 600-odd party leaders at the Kuomintang's Tenth National Congress, Chiang himself sounded the keynote for "overall reform." The President, although as lean and ascetic as ever, must by now know that his dream of a return to the mainland is a hopeless...
Shrady, 61, has been described as a "modern conservative," and the phrase aptly describes the neoclassical character of his doors. The twelve panels tell the story of the life, death and heavenly triumph of Mary, from her birth to St. Anne and her presentation in the temple (lower lefthand panels...