Word: spartanism
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...Nothing Spartan. Having gone to so much trouble to get his daily flights to and from New York and Athens, Onassis was not about to offer spartan service. Besides such now routine frills as in-flight movies and nine-channel stereo, the planes feature stewardesses in Chanel-designed uniforms, dinners from Manhattan's "21" Club. With that and a $2,000,000 advertising campaign in the U.S., Olympic hopes to win away from TWA and Israel's El Al, its only competitors on the New York-Athens run, at least 30% of the 115,000 Americans who will...
...creating their own academy of cool, they have produced a spartan art, aggressive and sometimes playful in its stark shapes. The viewer seems to be asked to overcome the chilly look of their bleak morphology, cloying pastel colorism and inert gigantism. Impersonal, almost deliberately dull, such objects require the maximum from the observer, offer the minimum in return. And if the viewer does not care to make the effort, he can well conclude that less is not always more...
Characteristically Spartan...
...Mischief. Volunteering for Korean duty in 1952, Westmoreland went over as commander of the tough 187th Regimental Combat Team, made a couple of paratroop jumps before the armistice was signed. Fretful that the cease-fire was playing havoc with his men's discipline, Westmoreland set them a spartan regimen: reveille at 5, a two mile run, digging fortifications all day, baths in an icy creek and, after dinner, 2½ hours of intramural sports, especially boxing. "By 10 o'clock every night," grins Westmoreland, "they were so exhausted they couldn't make mischief of any kind...
...most theological conferences these days, shoptalk is likely to center on such modern themes as "the death of God," Tillich's "ultimate concern, " Bonhoeffer's "religionless" Christianity. Last week, in the spartan setting of Nashville's tiny Free Will Baptist Bible College, more than 200 Protestant thinkers met for clear, serious and certain discussions about some traditional concepts: grace, sin, faith and, above all, the inerrancy of the Bible...