Word: asceticism
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At 50, Houphouet-Boigny feels himself a man of destiny. "When my people are free I will return to my plantation, like Washington," he says. A Roman Catholic in a family whose other members still believe in black magic, he is a self-styled ascetic, gave up mangoes at the...
The 70-Nation Look. The most startling phenomenon in today's Israel is that there is not yet a recognizable Israeli. It is as false to picture him as a tough colonizer as it is to think of him as an ascetic-looking, hollow-cheeked, dark-skinned Yemenite or...
Two completely different approaches to violin playing characterized yesterday's concert at Aams House. The first was that of Harvard's Edward Filmanowicz, who played sonatas by Beethoven and Faure with superb piano accompaniment by Robert Freeman. Filmanowicz was fiery and exciting, and brought out all the dramatic aspects of...
Chiang has no taste for the recreations, hobbies or frivolous interests that make for intimate friends, and he has none. He lives the life of an ascetic. He drinks only water (boiled and lukewarm) and sometimes tea. He never smokes. He eats sparingly. On the mainland his regime was always...
The Maryknoll sisters* know how to drive jeeps (and repair them), how to administer hypodermics and do major surgery, how to teach Christian doctrine-and how to be gay. When they return from the missions to the mother house on the Hudson, they are received with laughter and merry chatter...