Word: hermits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Life of One's Own, by Gerald Brenan. A sharp-eyed and superbly honest autobiography by a 69-year-old Englishman who at 25 opted out of civilization to pursue a hermit's vocation...
...times we live in!" So wrote Paul Cézanne in 1902, and, choosing not to live in his times, he spent his last years in the sunlit hills of Southern France in a solitary search for the pure sensations of color. And even more than his oils, the hermit master's ventures in the casual medium of watercolor blaze with a natural incandescence that never could be summoned by a light switch...
...story unique and the telling of it a rare pleasure is the one quality that distinguishes him from the ordinary run of men-his indifference to the opinions of others. In the cozy modern commonwealth of man, he never learned to snuggle up to his fellows. He had a hermit's vocation in a world that has no use for those who have...
...Kreinheder has been more hermit than monk, since the three companions who helped him found his Congregation of the Servants of Christ soon gave up. His major support comes from the 300 Lutherans who belong to his Fellowship of St. Augustine, occasionally visit the monastery to make retreats and join him in prayer. Kreinheder has no pastorate, supports himself by raising sheep, gets advice and a helping hand in the fields from the sympathetic Catholic monks of nearby St. Benedict of Montefano Monastery...
Crossing the chasm between high school and Harvard often converts the all-round boy into the Lamont Lodger or the House Hermit. The Lamont Lodger is overwhelmed, either in awe or fear, by the Academic Opportunities the College offers, and he takes what he thinks to be the best advantage of them. The House Hermit, while resisting the academic pressures, hesitates to jeopardize grades by getting involved in something besides them; in fact, he hesitates three and a half years until he wakes up one morning and finds himself turned into an IBM card...