Word: asceticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME Correspondent Israel Schenker last week called on the Premier, who lives with his wife, a medically trained midwife, and their two-year-old son Salim in a small, white, two-story house in a quiet residential district of Tunis. An F.L.N. .guard was at the door; inside the hall...
During Burma's first decade of independence, the nation's undisputed leader was affable, ascetic Premier U Nu, a sometime Buddhist monk who sought through his politics "to merit admission to the higher abode of nirvana." But U Nu was a lackluster administrator, and by 1958 Burma'...
On form, it helps a candidate for sainthood to be Italian, and a nun, priest or brother. Of the "causes" on the Vatican's current list, only 100 are laity; about half are non-Italians. Thirteen of the top candidates are cardinals; five are Popes: Gregory X, Innocent V...
Beyond that, there is the possibility-once just a joke about the numerousness of the Kennedys, now sometimes talked about seriously-that Bobby might try to succeed Jack in the White House. Any mention of this notion angers Bob Kennedy. "This idea is so obviously untrue." he says, "that it...
Selflessness & Zeal. Woodbury's ascetic missionaries-they neither smoke nor drink tea. coffee or liquor-are generally , admired by rival churchmen for their selflessness and zeal. British clergymen are less keen on Woodbury's hard-sell style of making converts. Last year the Church of England assembly labeled...