Word: asceticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini, 79, Archbishop of Palermo, Sicily, since 1945 and one of the most conservative of Roman Catholic prelates, a handsome, ascetic man who in 1959 spoke glowingly of Franco's Spain while threatening to excommunicate anyone who voted for Communist-backed candidates in Sicily's...
Pederast Pedestal. Enlisting in the Army to forget his confused yearnings, Daniel falls into the clutches of the sort of officer who might have given the Marquis de Sade himself basic training. Under his cruel, relentless treatment Daniel suffers the nightmare extremes of the homosexual experience-castration and disembowelment-before...
Died. Fritz Schaffer, 78, German economist and Konrad Adenauer's Fi nance Minister from 1949 to 1957, an ascetic Bavarian who saddled West Germany with the stiffest taxes in Europe, fiercely resisted what he considered nonessential government spending, and was largely responsible for the deutsche mark's becoming...
I HAVE just read this curious volume which in a green-jacketed edition has caused such a furor among our gendarmerie. As a novel it is both erotic and ascetic. I might well imagine a smile crossing the features of the mysterious Miss Trepan (and I have no doubts that...
Prime Decision. This week the powerful working committee of the Congress Party will convene in New Delhi to talk about who should be Prime Minister when a new government is formed in April. If the party decides to bypass Indira, the choice is most likely to fall on Morarji Desai...