Word: asceticism
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A tall, ascetic English explorer named Layeville, most understanding one of the lot, came to a more agonizing end than the others. Plunging on alone into the Kuenlun Mountains of Tibet, he was trapped in a snowstorm, endured 30 days of unspeakable physical horror before he found peace as he...
"Had Becket concurred with the King's wishes, we should have had an almost ideal state; a union of spiritual and temporal administration, under the central government . . . And what happened? The moment that Becket, at the King's instance, had been made Archbishop . . . and he became more priestly than the...
Those Philharmonic subscribers who considered Guest Conductor Igor Stravinsky too bloodless and ascetic (TIME, Jan. 25) last week found his successor, Georges Enesco, more to their taste. They clapped warmly when the burly, bigheaded Rumanian walked awkwardly onto the stage of Carnegie Hall to lead the Philharmonic for the first...
Last week Rev. Dr. Frederic Sydney Fleming, in his annual report as rector of Manhattan's rich old Trinity Parish, bluntly declared: "There is no part of the Church of Christ that has not failed lamentably in its witness and ministry in these recent years-the impotence of the...
Egypt is to Islam about what the U. S. is to Catholic Rome-an outland which provides large sums of money but gets modest recognition from the high church hierarchy. Until 1926 an annual train of Egyptian Mohammedan pilgrims made its way to Mecca, bringing gifts of money, grain and...