Word: asceticism
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Mendès' plan for Tunisia (which, if successful, he may try to adapt for Algeria and Morocco) emerged from ten days of intensive conferences. Mendès used his favorite method of conversations à deux-knocking heads together. This time he set up two-man meetings between French...
The hour for Viet Nam was late. "His mission is a pathetic one," Diem's chief of staff admitted. "Everyone thinks the cause is lost." But if there could be a rallying, Diem had unusual assets: the Asian fame of an ascetic, the ardor of an incorruptible nationalist, a...
Doctrinal Opposition. Ngo Dinh Diem (pronounced no-din-zim), a young-looking 53, was the son of a grand chamberlain of the Annamite court. Earnest, dedicated, a devout Roman Catholic, Diem graduated top of his class in Viet Nam's School of Administration, worked his way through the French...
A Pint of Beer. "Facts in Ireland," writes Authoress Honor Tracy, "are very peculiar things. They are rarely allowed to spoil the sweep and flow of conversation." In casting aside the grave, ascetic leader whom many of them had served with respect approaching reverence for three decades, the Irish were...
This pale, chilly man is an odd fish in the Tory school-an intellectual in a party which prefers character to brains, a political philosopher in a party which habitually relies on dimly felt tradition, a remote ascetic in a party of sociable men. But Rab Butler, 51, is the...