Word: hermitization
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...model society must be a universal democracy of self-teachers. Candidates must begin not by enlisting in a party or signing a pledge, but by withdrawing into self-analysis and contemplation. Mumford realizes that a man can't just throw up his job and become a hermit, but he can "escape from [the] time cage" by cutting down on the nonessentials that prevent concentration. "No house in the future will be generously planned," says he, "that does not have its closet or its cell, to supplement the only equivalent for it today, the bathroom...
...room on the second floor of Teheran's Majlis (Parliament) building was as bare as a hermit's cell. It was furnished with a sagging cot, a few dingy chairs, a foot locker, and a small table on which rested a half-used box of Kleenex, a bottle of ink, and a key ring with three keys. The only spot of color in the drab room was supplied by a bright blue enamel chamberpot under...
Only Actor James (Tobacco Road) Barton emerges with credit; he gives a salty performance as a turkey-raising hermit who befriends the escaped asylum inmate. Scripter-Director E. A. Dupont garnishes the picture's disjointed hokum with meticulous pictorial compositions that serve as hollow reminders of his eminence as a German director (Variety...
...charm and the pneumatic resilience of a heavy-duty tire. Some critics seem to assume that all would be well if only Bao Dai looked less like an amiable playboy and made more earnest speeches to rouse the people against Communism. But if Bao Dai were Peter the Hermit himself, I doubt that he could launch such a crusade. The key issue is a matter of principle, not of personality. To any Vietnamese who thinks about anything beyond his paddy field, national independence is the one dominant thought. And the bulk of Vietnamese still regard Bao Dai as a French...
When he was only 13, Thomas Verner Moore knew what he wanted to be-a hermit. The son of a Louisville insurance man, young Tom Moore had had his imagination fired by a book on the so-called Desert Fathers of the Church who retired from the world in the 3rd and 4th Centuries to devote their lives to silent contemplation of God. But Thomas Moore lived a busy life far from the desert; he grew up to be a priest and a physician, prior of a Benedictine monastery, founder of a psychiatric clinic for children, and finally head...