Word: asceticism
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Since accounting procedures are haphazard at best, a few Palestinians have succumbed to the tempting rewards of open-collar crime. Two months ago, three P.L.O. officials were tossed into a fedayeen jail for gambling away $250,000 of the organization's money at the gaming tables of Cairo. But...
As more than 1.5 million foreign workers have arrived to labor on development projects, rents have soared 600% in 18 months to ridiculous levels. A house in Jedda rents for $2,200 a month. Foreign firms are required to bring along prefab housing for their workers. Turnover is high among...
This is an important point, but it really requires more concrete examples than Roazen musters. Perhaps the best evidence for this charge that Erikson has misplaced faith in the "genius of old culture" lies in Erikson's brief discussion of the older Luther in Young Man Luther. Erikson attributes Luther...
With these words, Morarji Desai, 81, assured a jubilant throng in New Delhi that he would "drive fear out of society." Two months earlier he had been a prisoner without trial under the repressive state of emergency; last week, as he became the fourth Prime Minister of India, he promised...
Epstein moves beautifully through the role of the self-sacrificing woman who chooses an ascetic existence with her task-master father rather than the promises of marriage. With penetrating glances, Epstein conveys the other-worldliness that enables Maria to be the one character who does not feel constrained by her...