Word: asceticism
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IF YOU THINK BILL CLINTON'S ONLY obstacle to re-election is Bob Dole, think again. Judging by the volume of back-channel contacts, some Democrats are more concerned about, of all people, Ralph Nader. The sometimes loopily ascetic consumer crusader, who plans to run for the presidency as the...
IN TRYING TO ENACT THEIR CONTRACT with America in 100 days [Congress, April 10], Republican members of Congress exhausted their minds, frayed their tempers and strained their family relationships under the relentless prodding of the Speaker of the House. When medieval monks were subjected to an ascetic life of physical...
As the music changes, the monks strip off their black robe--along with their ascetic--vows and the piece becomes more gender-conscious, an examination of revelry, love and, as the program notes, "the ever-changing fate of man." The backdrop is lit at the start and end of the...
DIED. MORARJI DESAI, 99, ascetic former Prime Minister of India who led the country's first non-Congress Party government from 1977 to 1979; in Bombay. After Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed a state of emergency in 1975 and imprisoned political opponents-including Desai, for 21 months-voters put his...
As his fortunes prospered, Asahara seems to have grown more reclusive and obsessed with danger. The religion, nominally Buddhist but really a hodgepodge of ascetic disciplines and New Age occultism, focused on supposed threats from the U.S., which he portrayed as a creature of Freemasons and Jews bent on destroying...