Word: asceticism
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The Snake Charmer. The man who stands between Iraq and all-out Communism is a lean, hard-muscled and ascetic professional soldier with a fixed, snaggle-toothed smile. His name Abdul Karim Kassem. On the face of it, Karim Kassem, 44, seems a weak reed on which to rest the...
Almost nothing is known of Bosch's life except that he was a member of a semi-monastic lay community, lived in The Netherlands in a house overlooking the marketplace of 's Hertogenbosch, married, and died in 1516. He was undoubtedly an ascetic, probably a mystic, possibly an...
Dine by Candlelight. A Cygnet's life is ascetic: she may not smoke, wear trousers or enter a nightclub, and her few, heavily supervised dates are with escorts certified by her family. At the end of a gruelingly elegant day, Cygnets must dress ("looking as if they have washed...
Already Odysseus has begun to question, to doubt. To his surprise, he begins to find newborn sympathies with slaves and common folk. The old Greek gods have become objects of scorn, and what started as a mindless search for adventure has now become a journey of selfdiscovery. In Egypt he...
In New Delhi, India's Finance Minister Morarji Desai warned Parliament of the widening gap in foreign exchange, said the government may have to ''mobilize" all the nation's gold-from women's jewelry to hoarded bullion. India needs some $300 million additional credit this...