Word: monasticism
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For nearly 40 years, António de Oliveira Salazar has been the unusual dictator of an unfortunate land. An austere, almost monastic man who once taught economics, he has shunned publicity and raised few monuments to himself. Yet he built a tightly run, corporate state modeled closely on Mussolini...
If he has done nothing else, Abe Fortas has surely shattered the standard notion that a Supreme Court Justice leads a sequestered, monastic life that takes him from bench to book-lined study and back again. After admitting that he had continued to counsel Lyndon Johnson while serving on the...
Actually, it is nearly devoid of plot and action. The King of Navarre and three lords swear to set up a monastic "little academe" in which for three years they are "to fast, to study, and to see no woman." But a princess and three ladies-in-waiting soon arrive...
Money is only one of Jean-Claude's concerns. He wants to race a car some day at Le Mans; he also would like to break the world speed record (109.14 m.p.h.) on skis. But first, after those long, monastic months of training, he has some catching up to...
Superiors of contemplative societies attribute the defections to what they term today's "Peace Corps mentality"- the desire of many young Catholics to serve God by good deeds in the world rather than through a life of prayer. Another problem is that the monastic orders, most of which date...