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Last week, in an emotional speech in Rangoon's City Hall, ascetic, chubbily handsome U Nu, just turned 50, publicly surveyed Burma's progress under socialism and found it bad. The government, with himself as "principal offender," declared U Nu, had made "terrible mistakes ... a series of blunders...
Get Another Name. Among Protestants, the EPISCOPALIANS have been in the field longest, and their retreats tend to be more ascetic than those of other denominations. Near Brighton, Mich, the Episcopal Church supports a training center called Parishfield (capacity: 35), whose retreat schedule is typical of that in many Episcopalian...
Room for the Divine. The revived interest in Mondrian has revealed that before he became a dry, ascetic perfectionist, he had an intense, emotional youth remarkably similar to the early years of another great Dutch painter, Vincent van Gogh. Like Van Gogh, Mondrian had a strict Calvinist father, early sought...
A hawklike man with an ascetic face, Behn worked in an eyrie high in the tower of the company's Manhattan headquarters, an oak-paneled chamber in rich Louis XIV style, a painting of the late Pius XI behind his desk. Often he would gather aides to listen on...
The troubled world of the 20th century can boast no better-mannered or more enduring dictatorship than that of Portugal's ascetic, self-effacing Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. After about 21 years of would-be democracy, characterized largely by repeated bloodshed, revolution, and 40-odd changes of government, the...