Word: asceticism
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Man. To be a national sensation once more is felicity's zenith for Upton Sinclair, a fact which neither his enemies nor his friends have properly assayed. He is not a crackpot, but he is inordinately vain. He has not made a livelihood of scandalmongering; he has written because...
Frederick William Rolfe ("Baron Corvo") belongs with those eccentrics of literature whose books are caviar to the general. He experimented with words of his own concoction long before Joyce. His tales bear the stamp of strange originality. His life was that of a would-be priest, painter, novelist, historian, outcast...
During his stay in China the devout were shocked to learn that His Holiness is no ascetic. Though Tibetan Lamas consider it virtuous to go hungry and a sin to eat flesh or fish, the Panchen Lama feasted regularly in Nanking on chicken, beef, mutton and those expensive Chinese delicacies...
Cordell Hull: "The ascetic type, suggesting a monk of the Middle Ages." Donald Richberg: "A deep thinker." Henry Wallace: "A man of the soil." Hugh Johnson: "The answer to my prayer."
Gaston Lachaise summers in a Georgetown, Me. farmhouse where he raises ducks. In Manhattan he lives in a studio with no telephone in Washington Mews. Ascetic, hardworking, he goes to an occasional cinema or burlesque, rarely to parties. Although he works at fever pitch he tries to calm himself by...