Word: asceticism
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The family into which Wittgenstein was born in 1889 was one of the wealthiest in Vienna, and young Ludwig grew up in a hothouse atmosphere of high culture and privilege. Brahms and Mahler were frequent visitors to the palatial family home, and Ludwig's brother Paul, a concert pianist who...
James Casebere's surreal photographs of plaster models and catacomb-like spaces display the camera obscura method in a markedly different manner. For Casebere, his studio becomes a metaphorical representation of the pinhole camera; his eerie black and white prints, though smaller and less enchanting than Morell's work, beguile...
Carter had a restless mind that absorbed almost anything that came his way. Every President has more work than he can do. Carter may have come closer than any other modern President to mastering his schedule. He got up at 5:30 am. to get at his agenda when he...
Today energy bars are increasingly being targeted to weekend warriors and office workers. They're pitched as a way to eat breakfast on the run or to dose up with a burst of energy late in the workday--to help, as PowerBar says, with "life's daily marathons." But as...
Pius' story can be seen as the macro to Edith Stein's micro. Devout and ascetic in life, long a favorite of the church's conservative branch, the wartime Pontiff has been sharply criticized both by Jewish leaders and church liberals for his refusal to publicly condemn the Nazis, a...