Word: asceticism
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...My own particular feeling is that there is no particular virtue in not eating cake unless it helps my brother to have bread ... the ascetic ideal as such makes no appeal to me. The question, as I see it, is the extent to which our denial may help others ... My...
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat calls him "the lunatic of Libya." The CIA, TIME has learned, commissioned a secret psychological profile, which suggested that he was sound of mind. Nonetheless, Libya's mercurial strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, 34, has given leaders everywhere plenty of reason to worry since he took...
Some notables sent their regrets. Cuba's Fidel Castro said he was busy, and so did North Korea's Kim II Sung and Uganda's Idi Amin ("Big Daddy") Dada. Among those who did gather in Colombo: Viet Nam's ascetic Premier Pham Van Dong, Libya...
The longer articles are often as slipshod as the layout. For instance, an article in the Spring issue, "Take as Directed," tells the story of a 1969 high school class that developed into a mass psychology project. It attempts to make a statement on fascism in America and suggests how...
Slave of Christ. Much of the initial inspiration for the revival seems to have come from a mysterious ascetic who appeared in the Nile Valley in 1935, spent 30 years in a remote sandstone cave and vanished on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1965. A wiry, wispy-bearded man known...