Word: asceticism
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John Frederick Matthiesen (Cyprian is his patron saint) is an ascetic-looking, 29-year-old Eastern Orthodox missionary who was raised a Missouri Lutheran. For four years he has been working full-time in the punch-press department at Stewart-Warner (artillery fuses), at $30 a week. Purpose: 1) to...
Southern Murmur. "Gorty" Gortatowsky's office in Manhattan's bustling Hearst Publications Building has no name on the door. It is tucked down a back hall, past a Good Housekeeping beauty clinic. The only thing that distinguishes its ascetic furnishings is a miniature American flag on the desk...
Plenty of good directors have wanted to bring off just this sort of dead-static drama, so daringly ascetic in its denial of all the screen is supposed to need most and do best. Few have tried it, and none has succeeded more shrewdly than Zoltan Korda. With last year...
Dutch-born Piet Mondricm (1872-1944), pioneer of purest abstractionism, also felt fettered by objects. But where Kandinsky went off in a whirl, Mondrian painted straight, narrow paths. He finally became so ascetic that curves were too emotional for him, and he drew nothing but horizontal and vertical lines, convinced...
Non-Smoking Opponent. Certain to be President Vargas' chief opponent in the forthcoming elections was Brigadier General Eduardo Gomes. Ascetic Bachelor Gomes, an oldtime Army man, neither smokes nor drinks. As a survivor of the bloody, gallant, but unsuccessful 1922 revolt, he is a legendary figure in Brazil. He...