Word: asceticism
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In the nearly eight years since his army-supported coup ousted from power U Nu, the ascetic contemplative former premier, Ne Win has led the country, which was once the world's largest exporter of rice, into a calamitous decline. For years he has effectively closed it off from...
"He expresses himself cinematically, as a poet does with a pen," said Jean Cocteau of Robert Bresson. "There is a huge barrier between his greatness, his silence, his commitment and his dreams, and the world in which they are mistaken for stumbling and obsession." Une Femme Douce, Bresson's...
Simple Sandals. Ho's body, inside a glass coffin, was clad in a khaki tunic. At his feet was another glass box, containing the rubber sandals fashioned from used tires that symbolized his ascetic style. Behind the coffin were black-fringed national and party flags. "Hanoi mourns," reported North...
Equally ascetic is Richard Russell, 71. The Georgia Democrat lives alone in a frugal one-bedroom apartment across from the sumptuous Watergate apartment-house complex. He breakfasts early at the Senate and works a twelve-hour day. A bachelor, Russell could dine at prestigious tables every night, but would rather...
To be fair, this is where Shaw's inspiration thins out too. In a final peroration, Lilith-lyrically evoked by Joan Plowright-broods on the results of human history and concludes: "It is enough that there is a beyond." It may be enough for Lilith, but it is not...