Word: asceticism
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India's native leaders present a spectacle not unlike a steeplechase. They are all headed for the same finish line-independence from Great Britain. At the risk of breaking their necks at the various hurdles, fences, hedges and ditches interposed along the course by Britain, they compete for the...
Although His Majesty has had some 150 wives, he belongs to a most ascetic Moslem sect, the Wahabis,and his courtiers explain: "Our King has never had more than four wives at any one time." Bert Fish last week voiced hopes "for the personal happiness of Your Majesty and the...
Few writers can handle an early 18th-Century English subject with a grace and sang-froid that would have passed muster in that brilliant age. Peter Quennell (pronounced Kweneir) is (with Virginia Woolf, Edith Sitwell, Lord David Cecil) one of the few. An Oxonian of ascetic good looks and elegant...
The Diferencias by Cabezon is the earliest composition on the program and represents the work of one of the first great figures in Spanish music. It also typifies one of the first forms in which keyboard music was composed. Writing variations on a melody was of course a very obvious...
In all the New Deal's seven years, the one New Dealer who never got his lumps from the opposition was good grey Cordell Hull, the homely and ascetic Secretary of State who remained placidly in his old rookery on Pennsylvania Avenue, quietly preaching the apparently unassailable doctrine that...