Word: asceticism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The good guy in the show is the Daddy/Boyfriend, played by Tony Chase. Although alcoholic and finally impotent against Mama's ascetic whiteness, this character elicits sympathy by his simply-felt expression of pride and physical desires. Like Wright, Chase battles his way through a dense forest of triteness to...
In fact, Julian and Myra Breckinridge suggest Vidal's startling range as a literary mime. He can pull off convincing impersonations of both an ascetic, driven emperor and a movie-mad transsexual-and impress history buffs with his faithful reproduction of Aaron Burr. He exhibits this talent in private...
The book's best portrait is of the man who dwarfs the other three-Mohandas Gandhi, that tiny ascetic who for 30 years harried his British rulers with fasts and passive resistance. The mystic whom Winston Churchill once scorned as a "half-naked fakir" is a saint to his...
Sizing up the ungainly red rig in a Prague parking lot, one puzzled passerby conjectured that it was a dormitory-on-wheels for an ascetic order of monks.
The Nag Hammadi texts, says New Testament Scholar James M. Robinson, who led the team that has compiled them, offer the first comprehensive view of Gnosticism as "a religion in its own right." That view is startling indeed. The Gnostics were imaginative religious scavengers who borrowed freely from various sources...