Word: monasticism
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The wistful tones of a highly pitched voice drifted lightly through the autumnal silence of the night. A solitary figure patrolling with all the apathy of an Apted aide-de-camp in the shade of the Kirkland House quadrangle stopped suddenly alert to the alien tones that at this hour...
In 1906 he went to Tibet again, this time to map some of the country's unexplored areas, to discover the source of the Indus, and to visit Tashi-lunpo, monastic citadel of the Tashi Lama, holiest man in Tibet since the flight (in 1904) of the Dalai Lama...
Girolamo Savonarola, whom Fra Bartolommeo's portrait shows as the most Italianate of all holy men, fled from an evil world into what he hoped would be the vital reality of a Dominican convent. He soon found monastic life a minor copy of the world outside. The corruption of...
Monastic orders for men & women have long existed in the Anglo-Catholic wings of the Anglican and Episcopal churches, but not in other Protestant sects. One Susan Miles wrote from Texas last July to The Christian Century: "Why don't we have a Protestant sisterhood? I know dozens of...
For a few fluttery days the women were permitted to roam the air station arm-in-arm with the flyers. For months the men had been confined in monastic seclusion lest any of them get off mental or emotional balance. Under the fanatical hawkeye discipline of their commander, Col. Aldo...