Word: soul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just think of that, people who are reading?England will never fail. . . . The good God gave the British people their immortal soul of Honesty, which will always rise to the occasion...
...Play, crossed with Arthurian Romance, for the town is near Stonehenge, and Arthur's sword and the Holy Grail make their appearances at times. What with mystic visions, and an unrivaled collection of sexual affairs, mostly clandestine or perverse, Novelist Powys allegorizes his conception of the "divine-diabolic soul of the First Cause." In the end Geard rescues Philip Crow from his fallen airplane, is drowned himself. In dithyrambic periods Author Powys sings his hero's praise: "He had never been a fastidious man. He had got his pleasure from smelling at dunghills, from making water...
Here let me wash my spotted soul From crimes of deepest...
Hymn-Writer Watts, a gentle, humorless metaphor-mixer, wrote many & many a hymn. Probably he never pictured to himself a Christian, with spotted soul under his arm, flying to the fountain as to a gory laundry. But modern Methodists, sincere as any one in accepting the allegory of the Blood Atonement, raise their eyebrows at the language in which it was couched. Currently a number of hymns by Watts and the Wesleys are slated for omission from a revised hymnal prepared by a joint commission of three Methodist Episcopal Churches (TIME, March 14). To young people they are "revolting," says...
...members. As an architectural unit the original quadrangle is a good one, although its appearance at the moment is shabby. Kirkland has the distinction of possessing in its basement the kitchen in which is prepared the food whereby most of the members of the Houses keep body and soul together. It has a charming library unlike any other in the University. The location of the House is convenient to the Yard and to Harvard Square and close to most of the other Houses. In addition to these purely physical distinctions, Kirkland is fortunate in having an active and able group...