Word: asceticism
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Libya's ascetic ruler, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, is not known as a connoisseur of humor, especially when it is at his own expense. So a satirical article about him in Turin's La Stampa last month enraged him. "It seems," ran the mock-fan-magazine prose, "that he...
The original material for Siddhartha--the book itself--was no gem, but the basic setting and action has potential. Louis Malle (Phantom India) and Jean Renoir (The River), along with Satyajit Ray and his Apu trilogy, have shown that India's culture is fascinating on film. And Kon Ichikawa made...
The guiding force of the Arab oil strategy is the shrewd, durable and ascetic leader of Saudi Arabia, King Feisal ibn Abdul Aziz al Saud. Feisal's raw desert kingdom sits atop the world's richest oil deposit; the best estimates of Saudi Arabia's proven reserves run to 137...
Sir / Ecumenism is being dealt a further blow, and the warm humanity of the dead Pope John is being eroded by the ascetic Bishop of Rome who now requires toddlers to lisp in the confessional, "Forgive me. Father, for I have wet the bed."
You missed Harry too. Bob Harrison, a combustive man who lit the fuse on the longest and most anticipated dud firecracker that Cambridge has known in its athletic history or will ever hope to know. Harry, a man who plotted and schemed in dark corners and at locker room blackboards...