Word: asceticism
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All of this-the economy model stripped down to an irreducible ascetic tackiness-can be ours for more dollars than our fathers used to earn, total, in ten or 15 years, for a price that once would have purchased Tara, or at least the six-bedroom Lake Forest spread of...
(10 of 11) No-Nonsense Tightwad. Oddly, this figure has assumed the most traditional American role. He is the Jew become Yankee Trader?prudent, frugal, resourceful, strict; in Koch's case, ascetic to boot. On his shoulders lies the mantle of New England Protestantism, the mantle scorned and defiled by...
This acceptance of man's--and Galbraith's--flawed nature may have allowed such enthusaistic indulgence in the good life by a man committed to the concept of equality. Perhaps, he might concede, the lifestyle and the politics are a little inconsistent, but what good would living the ascetic life...
The Black students here who have done what they sincerely thought would help Black people deserve praise. So do those honest and conscientious protesters who last Saturday brought to light our inexcusable neglect. Their demonstration was especially appropriate at an event commerating the life of our most brilliant leader--and...
"We have succeeded to a great extent in creating harmony, but it is too much to expect that in six months we could have transformed every individual in the community. " So says Robert Mugabe, the former nationalist guerrilla leader and self-proclaimed Marxist who took over as the first Prime...