Word: hermits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Christianity, said the dean, is a way of living, not a way of talking, or even of thinking. "Although Christ was strict in dealing with the temptations of the flesh, He was gentler with such sinners than Puritanism. The ideal Christian is not the monk or hermit, nor is he, as was sometimes thought in the 19th Century, the respectable...