Word: asceticism
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Compared with his ascetic friend Robert Mugabe, who is a trained and erudite philosopher, the stocky Tekere has always cut the figure of a rough-and-ready, sometimes recklessly outspoken black nationalist with little patience for ideology or gradualism. Last month Tekere scathingly dismissed two top Anglican churchmen-one of...
When the Iranians understand the Koran, states Sri Lanka's ascetic M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, a teacher in the mystical Sufi movement, now living in Philadelphia, "they will release the hostages immediately." Muhaiyaddeen has sent Khomeini three fervent epistles, urging him to free the captives and repent of his vengeance...
Chad's warring leaders not only are locked in a power struggle, but also are seen as proxies of two foreign nations with rival interests throughout Africa: the sophisticated, Paris-educated Habré is associated with the French, while the ascetic revolutionary Oueddei is presumed to be close to...
For many of the 212,000 white citizens of the breakaway British colony, the election results announced last week indeed marked the end of their world. Robert Gabriel Mugabe, 56, the implacable, ascetic revolutionary and guerrilla leader, had won by a landslide. In three days of balloting for 80 black...
To some degree, the blacks were voting for a cause and a symbol rather than a candidate. Mugabe has little personal magnetism. He lacks the easy humor and earthiness of Nkomo, and seems temperamentally unsuited to the rough and tumble of African politics. His personal regimen is ascetic: he sleeps...