Word: monasticism
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After a quiet Christmas week at home in Arlington, Va., with his wife Anna and their children - John, 15, and Caroline, 13 - Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., 40, returned to the powder-blue crew quarters of Cape Canaveral's Hangar "S." There, one floor below in glassed-off splendor...
Talent Hunt. As the Aussie players come and go, their team's most valuable man remains its laconic captain, Harry Hopman. A hard-nosed disciplinarian who demands monastic devotion and impeccable manners from his players. Hopman. 55, bosses an uncompromising talent-hunting organization that spots promising youngsters, grooms them...
Duty Is to Pray. A monk is a cleric who takes vows of religion that bind him to live and serve in one monastic community until his death. Unlike Franciscan or Dominican houses, which are organized into tightly run provinces, Benedictine monasteries are almost completely independent of each other; a...
Connecticut's small (1,075 men) Wesleyan University in Middletown is brimful of new ideas, is rated by educators as among the nation's liveliest. But the region around Wesleyan is also brimful of potent rivals, and Wesleyan has long lost top applicants to better-known Harvard, Yale...
Nutting believes that Lawrence began to see himself as a kind of latter-day Messiah. Shown an illustration for Pillars that pictured him as a godhead above the clouds looking down on the Arab revolt, Lawrence was amazed that anyone could capture so completely what at times he felt about...