Word: asceticism
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The leader chosen, a messenger sped to bring the news to the Pope. Each elector kissed the hand of the new General in sign of obedience, and the doors were flung wide to reveal to outsiders the new leader: Father John Baptist Janssens of Belgium, a Jesuit since 1907; tall...
Tito carefully fosters this jingoism. Sound trucks in every village spout nationalist propaganda. Grade-school readers contain pictures of rifles, tanks, and airplanes. All young Yugoslavs are compulsory members of Tito's National Youth Organization, where they get technical and military training. Ascetic discipline is rigidly preached and enforced...
There was Kisling, "the swellest guy in the world," the mystic Stuckgold, who always placed his naked models in another room so he couldn't see them when he worked. There was savage, ascetic Soutine, who smashed his chair and table to kindling wood so Kiki could be warm...
"The truest lovers of God and the most ascetic are essentially joyful; because a strong spirit, that knows and despises the world, has joy enough in its very freedom. All things are its own in idea, and to none of them is it a slave. It has begun to taste...
Testaments of Youth Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 76, philosophic champion of self-discipline and nonviolence, got fed up with the violently undisciplined enthusiasm of his Indian followers: it kept him awake. On a tour through India they cheered him at every train stop. Cried he: "I cannot repeat this performance for...