Word: asceticism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stunningly introduced, running breathlessly toward the camera in a frame worthy of romantically-inclined Hitchcock, Daria (Daria Halprin) represents for Antonioni semi-dormant awareness of the imperfect world she inhabits. A hippie girl who condescends to establishment employment when she "needs bread," this Antonioni heroine is a creature of fashion...
Looking Backward. McCarthy's passivity, Larner came to suspect, was hard to distinguish "from a fear of looking bad. In this he was not unlike certain athletes who would rather lose than go all-out to win." But beyond that, there seems in retrospect a certain ascetic bleakness in...
Those scattered voices of protest are scheduled to be united soon in one chorus of concern. The occasion will be a nationwide "teach-in" on April 22 to dramatize the ecological ills of the earth. The idea for the teach-in was given impetus by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson last...
Henry Ford: In politics, he "has seldom been taken seriously," but "he has an interesting and sympathetic face and manner, looking rather like an ascetic saint."