Word: asceticism
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It would be hard to find anywhere in the world a more hard-working and dutiful group of students than those at the Salahiah Girls Institute in northern Malaya. All day for six days a week, the girls, aged twelve to 20, drill in Arabic, study the Moslem faith, recite...
Muscat and Oman (pop. 600,000) is a Kansas-sized land of racing camels, frankincense, lush oases and forbidding highlands that has had treaty ties with Britain for more than 150 years. In the center of it lies Oman, the most isolated part of Arabia, a place of fiery tribal...
Much of the new political approach originates from a Jesuit priest close to the Vatican-grey, ascetic Father Riccardo Lombardi, who heads a new organization called Per un Mondo Migliore (For a Better World). To the "Better World" school in the Alban Hills near Rome, priests come from all over...
The friar delegates at Assisi could also look out to a growing network of more or less affiliated Franciscan groups, for no order has been more beset with sectarianism. Soon after St. Francis' death, his simplicity and fervor living on in his followers caused a profusion of Franciscan-rule...
A Gigantic Fugue. Adopting evolution as his religion, Mondrian made a cult of the new, preferred man-made scenery to nature, turned his back on the Bois de Boulogne to avoid seeing the trees, furiously danced the Charleston (when The Netherlands banned it, he announced that he would never return...