Word: asceticism
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Ascetic Sadist. Globular Alfred ("Hitch") Hitchcock has lately become an oblate spheroid by jettisoning some 90 Ib. of flesh. (His starting weight was 295 Ib., his favorite food, beefsteak.) But asceticism has not reduced Hitchcock's abilities as a humorist, raconteur, deadpan artist and the greatest director of cinema thrillers. At a large stag dinner party, when his turn came to enrich the traditional ambience of brandy & cigars with an off-color story, he murmured diffidently: "I have a story, but I'd best not tell it because it's rather long." The clamor...
Asch's Paul is the brilliantly dynamic prophet and organizer of the early Christian Church. He was driven by an ineluctable faith, by visions no less intense. No danger stopped him. But St. Paul was not only an evangelist. He was pugnacious and something of a politician. Says Novelist...
This article is designed for the incoming Freshman V 12er who is now unpacking his trunk in Cambridge, secure in the ascetic belief that his next two or three years will be spent with his nose deep in books. It is intended for the Freshman who thinks Harvard is all...
I sat on his lap in '29. It was-a-cold, hard, uncompromising lap; that, of course, was because he was a statue. He was ascetic John Harvard. He founded Harvard College.
It was a somewhat changed, more modest, even more ascetic Ben Cohen who now settled himself at practical Jimmy Byrnes's right hand-ready to draft his orders, do his leg work, feed him ideas. In the palmy middle years of the New Deal, Ben Cohen and Thomas G...