Word: asceticism
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Stunningly introduced, running breathlessly toward the camera in a frame worthy of romantically-inclined Hitchcock, Daria (Daria Halprin) represents for Antonioni semi-dormant awareness of the imperfect world she inhabits. A hippie girl who condescends to establishment employment when she "needs bread," this Antonioni heroine is a creature of fashion...
Looking Backward. McCarthy's passivity, Larner came to suspect, was hard to distinguish "from a fear of looking bad. In this he was not unlike certain athletes who would rather lose than go all-out to win." But beyond that, there seems in retrospect a certain ascetic bleakness in...
Those scattered voices of protest are scheduled to be united soon in one chorus of concern. The occasion will be a nationwide "teach-in" on April 22 to dramatize the ecological ills of the earth. The idea for the teach-in was given impetus by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson last...
Henry Ford: In politics, he "has seldom been taken seriously," but "he has an interesting and sympathetic face and manner, looking rather like an ascetic saint."
It has always seemed puzzling how the essentially pessimistic theology of Puritanism could become the underpinning of a buoyant, almost recklessly optimistic civilization. Part of the answer lies in the fact that the Puritan ethos not only posits the fall of man, it also implies the existence of an Elect...