Word: soulâ
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...Godfather of soul??died on Christmas Day, but he is still center stage in a family dispute over where he should be buried. As of mid- January, James Brown's body remained in his air-conditioned South Carolina home. But Brown is in good company; his is just the latest chapter in the sordid history of celebrity burial tugs...
Somewhere along the line, a friendly soul???or perhaps Ford himself?evidently held on to the check until he was able to get his personal account back into balance. Not until Jan. 11, 1973, did the check clear the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, which processes checks for Washington-area banks. Thus, Ford had the personal use of campaign funds for some six weeks...
...wagon drawn by a mule, hollerin' 'watermellllon!' with a cry in their voices. And the men on the railroad track layin' crossties?every time they hit the hammer it was with a sad feelin', but with a beat. And the Baptist preacher?he the one who had the soul???he give out the meter, a long and short meter, and the old mothers of the church would reply. This musical thing has been here since America been here. This is trial-and-tribulation music...
Most important, once Charles broke the barrier between gospel and blues, the way was open for a whole cluster of ingredients to converge around an R & B core and form the potent, musical mix now known as soul???among them, in Critic Albert Goldman's words, "a racial ragbag of Delta blues, hillbilly strumming, gutbucket jazz, boogie-woogie piano, pop lyricism and storefront shouting...
...great Far Eastern religions consider created matter, including man, so barbaric that the only hope lies in nirvana, in which the soul???unnamed, unnumbered, unidentified?achieves a blessed reunion with the cosmic spirit. The Austrian writer Heimito von Doderer expressed this Eastern anti-individualism perfectly in his novel The Demons. Looking Eastward, he mused that there "individual life does not rebel; there is too little of it for rebellion. One soul mingles with another like smoke." But in the West, "every life has its own special, if invisible, garden plot. . . . A man stands alone between the tended flower beds...