Word: asceticism
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"The problems that have not been solved," said the committee, "represent the loss of many thousands of millions of crowns." (There are 7.2 Czech crowns to the dollar.) "Consumers have not had a large enough influence on assortment, quality and range of production," the preamble continued, and production is so...
The Royal Hunt of the Sun, by Peter Shaffer. A huge heraldic signet bearing a black cross is pinned with ascetic severity to the rear wall of the stage. Suddenly, it begins to open like secret paneling. Triangular sections peel back, and tongues of gold lick the surrounding dark. In...
The Communist bank is directed by Chairman Nan Han-chen, 73, a deceptively benign looking finance specialist who took part in the abortive 1936 kidnaping of Chiang Kai-shek by Shensi-province Reds. Taiwan's bank is headed by ascetic Yu Kuo-hwa, 51, a veteran follower of Chiang...
Fatigue & Peekaboo. "You have before you a man like you, your brother " Paul told the U.N. For once, it could be believed. Nudged and cheered by surging crowds, kept under all but constant surveillance by television cameras, Paul appeared no less the spiritual monarch but more the appealing human being...
Piet Mondrian's life was dedicated to style. He was the leader, in fact, of the Dutch-centered De Stijl movement that began during World War I. For Mondrian, the ascetic ideal of De Stijl was renunciation of the physical representation of things. His art was right-angular, asymmetrical...