Word: asceticism
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New Prestige. The meeting was the high point of Pope Paul's extraordinary trip to the Holy Land, which, among its other claims to historical notice, added a new dimension to the image of the modern papacy created by Paul's predecessors. Through his countless audiences and learned...
In 1951, after eight years of one-man shows (and rising prices), Pollock abruptly banished color from his work. He also began weaving images again with his whiplash scatter stroke. There emerged an ascetic calligraphy that, in daring the absurdity of sheer scribble, produced a flowing script that entranced the...
Morarji Desai, 67, a stern ascetic who was Nehru's Finance Minister and was once a favorite to succeed him, has lost much of his popularity in the past year, largely as a result of his Draconian measures to raise taxes for the defense effort, but could still be...
The poem "Don Quixote," which separates the two parts of the journal, best reveals the author's descriptive ability. Combining simple statements and rolling Biblical tones, he paints that "great and gaunt ascetic" as a symbol of his country.
In every age, men have struggled to perceive God directly rather than as a tenuously grasped abstraction. Few succeed, and the visions of the world's rare mystics have normally come only after hard spiritual work-prayer, meditation, ascetic practice. Now a number of psychologists and theologians are exploring...