Word: asceticism
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"The lack of a table produces informality and greater participation," says one director of Hartford's Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. "When you can see the chairman's garters, or lack of them, it somehow stimulates conversation." Adds Grant Simmons Jr., president of the mattress-making Simmons Co...
Since Time magazine helped round up this exhibit, there are three examples of its cover portraits. On a light blue background, Bernard Buffet showed us a lined and ascetic Charles de Gaulle. In a departure from his usual semi-abstractionism, Rufino Tamayo outlined the face of Mexican President Lopez Mateos...
Nothing fascinates an Indian politician like trying to guess who will succeed Pandit Nehru, now 71, and the only Premier the country ever had. The name most mentioned lately has been Morarji Desai, 64, who is India's able Finance Minister, leading prohibitionist and all-round ascetic (he eats...
Though he lost the title role, Olivier gained by the switch. It is really the title role in name only: in his drama of the medieval King who idolized his chief counselor and then suffered him to be killed, Anouilh ignored too much that was vital in Becket-his great...
"After the first two days, I had no craving for food," he commented. "I guess it was similar to the way an ascetic looks at a woman."