Word: asceticism
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Yadin believes that the Temple Scroll was considered part of the Bible by Qumran. The parchment reinforces the scholarly conviction that the Qumran community consisted of ascetic, apocalyptically minded Jews who withdrew from the turmoil of Jerusalem to await the end of the world, and whose zeal to purify their...
The organist, Ray, had a freshly showered ascetic appearance, like a preppie who has gone hip with recently acquired metal rimmed glasses and striped pants. Jon is small and mouse-like and, according to Elektra producer Paul Rothchild, one of the most brilliant drummers around. The third Door was Robby...
Devil Found. Svetlana's first child, Josef, was three before Stalin saw him. Five of his eight grandchildren he never met at all. Barely noting Svetlana's existence, he lived like an ascetic misanthrope in his dacha at Kuntsevo, the walls covered with blown-up magazine pictures of...
The new citadel is the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Built for the National Science Foundation and designed by New York's leoh Ming Pei, 50, it will house 400 meteorologists, atmospheric chemists, astronomers, air-pollution experts and other scientists from a group of 23 universities doing atmospheric research...
Died. Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini, 79, Archbishop of Palermo, Sicily, since 1945 and one of the most conservative of Roman Catholic prelates, a handsome, ascetic man who in 1959 spoke glowingly of Franco's Spain while threatening to excommunicate anyone who voted for Communist-backed candidates in Sicily's...