Word: asceticism
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The Lesser Reward. Unfortunately the Christian Democratic victory did not bring equivalent rewards. Deprived of the electoral bonus which in 1951 gave two-thirds of the seats to the party polling the most votes, the Christian Democrats found themselves in many cities polling more votes but losing seats. In Turin...
The Noble Four & Eight. Buddha was born Gautama, the prince, son of a rajah, who gave him palaces, slaves, dancing girls, every kind of beauty and pleasure. One day, on a forbidden ride outside the palace grounds, he encountered four persons: an old man, an ill man, a dead man...
The rare moments of freedom from the strict regimen come, strangely, at the table. Breakfast-eaten usually in state-subsidized clubs or officers' messes-is a souped-up repast of coffee, rolls and hefty portions of eggs and ham. Lunch provides plenty of soup, meat and vegetables, topped off...
Curé Ponosse understood all this, and it never occurred to him that the door of heaven should be slammed in the faces of such innocent wrongdoers. When he died, beloved even by the anticlericals, the cure was succeeded by a young ascetic who tried the fire-and-brimstone approach...
Five years ago, in the village of Pothampalli near Hyderabad, Vinoba Bhave, ascetic disciple of the late Mahatma Gandhi, saw the light: the solution to India's problems was land redistribution. Thereupon, Bhave set out with a few of his own disciples to persuade India's landowners to...