Word: spartanism
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...payment for extra orders cuts out unnecessary red tape. The complex of pink, white, and blue slips, which are now used only for statistical records, should definitely go. The real difficulty is not one of mechanics, nor is it unique to Harvard. The problem of popularizing the seemingly Spartan-like restrictions is only a reflection of what is going on all over the country. Present conditions and not past luxuries must be the basis of comparison...
Congressman Clare Hoffman of Michi gan advocated a Spartan wartime diet for Congress: "cornmeal mush and a baked potato without butter or even milk gravy." He hoped aloud that Congressmen would be "first to lose their tubes, their tires, their automobiles, their cocktails and their dinners at the swank hotels...
...powers. He smokes, drinks with gusto, works like a dog, ashore lives a Spartan life in a modest house in Tokyo's suburbs. He has firm control of his heavy-lipped, firm-jawed face, and crops his hair short to look more like the man of action that...
...appalled by his own concupiscence, he was driven to religion. "I do not care to see the sex," he said later, "except shut up and curtained from sight, like so many mysteries not to be regarded save with a kind of horror." As a Capuchin, his "Spartan taste for the uncomfortable," made him prefer to pray standing, barefoot, on the stone floor. When he became sleepy and tired, he stood...
These fine, clean-living young athletes are rather to be compared with the noble Greek runner, Pheidippides, who in 490 B.C. ran the 134 miles from Athens to Sparta in 48 hours to seek Spartan help against the Persians. Thomas E. Bowman...