Word: asceticism
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Medieval playacting? The dedicated "companions" who make up the Laboring Order of the Ark are convinced that their ascetic, antimodern life is the only way that the principles of the Sermon on the Mount can conscientiously be carried out. Oddly enough, the inspiration for this attitude does not come directly...
As an ascetic, Cabot was a terror. He neither drank nor smoked. But at 72 he could beat opponents half his age at tennis. He played a savage game of chess until he was 85, when he gave it up because he found it was too exciting. At 86, after...
Greek & Graceful. The letters show Wilde as something far more than the talented fop of his own self-caricature. The collection begins with fond early letters from Wilde to his friends at Magdalen College, Oxford. Their nicknames are "Kitten," "Bouncer" and "Puss" (Wilde's was "Hosky"). Wilde's...
The Corporate Ascetic. Despite its prosperity, B.H.P. has chosen for itself the role of corporate ascetic. Says one former executive, ruefully recalling his $18-a-week expense allowance: "The place is run like a pawnshop." The sprawling B.H.P. shop is presently managed by a triumvirate that prefers fishing to nightclubbing...
Indications are that when Nehru steps down, his Congress Party will nominate a straw man who resembles him as closely as possible. Likeliest candidate is Lai Bahadur Shastri, 58, Nehru's bland Home Minister, who, while probably equal to the job, lacks the personal dynamism to .#11 it permanently...