Word: spartanism
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...those who provide assistance, of course, lead comfortable lives. Volunteers working for such private charitable organizations as Catholic Relief Services, Band Aid or Oxfam often live in spartan quarters and work exhaustingly long hours. In Khartoum, Alastair Scott-Villiers, 26, supervises the distribution of $22 million in Band Aid relief from a dingy hotel room that lacks a toilet or bath. His annual salary is about $14,000. Outside the capital, Liz Hughes, 25, shares a hut in the crumbling village of Mayo with two other Irish nurses. The threesome, who each receive $60 a month from Goal, an Irish...
...American sculptor who tried to make metaphors of technology, not even Calder, came up with an object as striking as Walter Teague's "Bluebird" radio, 1937-40, whose integration of a spartan constructivist design ethic into an American sense of technology as spectacle -- the big blue glass disk suggesting the ether from which broadcast signals were gathered -- shows how little truth there is in the idea that design is condemned to lag behind "high" art in expressive clarity. We certainly need more shows as thorough and intelligent as this one, to counteract the vulgar mania for "art stars" and remind...
...Navy Secretary John Lehman because of a paper he wrote extolling the modern military uses of the battleship. Lehman pushed North onto the NSC staff, where he quickly became known as an ardent Reaganite. He was an obsessive worker; starting at 7 a.m., he was often in his spartan office in the Old Executive Office Building 17 hours later. He toiled away on weekends and spent little time with his wife and four children...
...Embellishing the playwright's original script, Bobis and Onbargi have experimented with a mime troupe of five who periodically act out the memories of the three main characters in stylized slow motion. It's kitschy, but it works. The set, also designed by Onbargi, creates a properly sadistic and spartan backdrop. Hell's flames simply cannot compare to the three tacky couches to which the characters are relegated, and the spikes attached to the wall frames seem appropriately frightening...
...however, Iceland's very remoteness has thrust it onto center stage. President Reagan reportedly chose Reykjavik over London for this meeting to minimize distractions. The driving force behind this superpower outing, according to both Soviet and U.S. officials, is "less is best." In attracting the two leaders, Iceland's spartan isolation may have been its major selling point...