Word: asceticism
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What was the stature of the man Jesus? How tall was He? How sturdy or frail? Painters and sculptors have clouded over their ignorance by emphasizing His face, putting therein all the passion and pity or suffering within their abilities. His body they have made secondary, usually slim, occasionally even...
Have great religious teachers come in the past-Roman world to intervene in its Hebraic orthodoxy and Roman materialism ? If so, would He work through the consciousness and personality of a Kellogg, a Coolidge, a Lloyd George or a Baldwin, or through some gentle, strong person fit to express the...
The Unguarded Hour. If you have forgotten what Milton Sills looks like, wait patiently at this one and you can find out. He strolls in very late as that fabulous creature, an ascetic Italian duke. But his arrival does little to help the piece, which is melo-amorous studio stuff...
The Author. Being at the head of his publisher's publicity department, modest Barry Benefield occupies a strategic but embarrassing position. Strategic, because he can refuse to let more be known of himself than that he was born in Jefferson, Tex., went to school and college in "that prodigious state...
Edwin Franko Goldman is a Jew writer, with musicianly grey hair, an ascetic face, and strong leathery lips of the professional wind-instrument-player.