Word: asceticism
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George Benson: Bad Benson (CTI; $5.98). George Benson is in every way a superior guitarist to Beatle George Harrison, for example, or to Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page. Benson's uncluttered swinging blues set guitar-playing standards that quickly made his name known to every serious jazz buff...
Prince Fahd, on the other hand, is likely to be the most dynamic heir apparent that Saudi Arabia has ever had. In both style and personality, the affable, perpetually smiling Fahd is a sharp contrast to the dour, ascetic Faisal. Nonetheless the two men worked well together. "Fahd was like...
But, the playwright has modernized the drama just enough to give it a surrealistic tinge, which is more accessible to the audience than an old-fashioned mythology in touch with, and fearful of, nature and its spirits. His version allows for the modern mystery of technology. Death is represented as...
The beneficiaries of this transfer were a disparate group of oil-possessing Africans, Asians, Latin Americans and, most favored of all, Arabs, who provided two-thirds of the petroleum exports and have more than three-fifths of the proven petroleum reserves in the non-Communist world. One bleak, sparsely populated...
Faisal's concern is fostered not only by tribal tradition but also by a deep religious faith. The King prays, as Islamic law commands, five times a day. When he is in Jeddah, he likes to take a prayer rug to the shore and meditate beside the sea. On...