Word: asceticism
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After six months on the job, Colombo, who flies off this week for a five-day U.S. visit that will include a White House conference with President Nixon, has done more than merely hang on. Some Italians are already saying, perhaps prematurely, that he may be the best man in...
Cartier-Bresson avoids being photographed whenever he can, and once gave a television interview with his back to the camera. A picture would show a man of 62, an ascetic face with fine bones and high forehead. He rarely talks of his personal life (he divorced his first wife, a...
In 1962, John F. Kennedy told them: "Wear the beret proudly. It will be a mark of distinction and a badge of courage in the fight for freedom." The Green Berets were, in this war at least, a final flowering of glory-Pimpernels, the last Lone Rangers, ready for anything...
(6 of 10) ordination, Daniel wrote a controversial essay?now a minor classic ?characterizing the priesthood as a "sheepfold for sheep" unless it was informed by experience in the world. Both Berrigans doted on the postwar French Catholic avantgarde, and a year in France during the heyday of the...
Buying Time. The whole operation was immeasurably helped by Carli's high personal standing among international bankers. An athletic, ascetic-looking man, he holds a position comparable to the combined posts of Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns and Chief Presidential Economist Paul McCracken. Carli sits in on Cabinet financial...