Word: soul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knight, attempts to seduce another's wife, is rebuffed. The Jew reappears as a Sicilian merchant whose son dies and whose wife leaves him to become a nun. Lastly, in Seville, he is a kindly doctor who treats a trollop's injured ankle, involuntarily saves her soul. When the Inquisition hales him up as a heretic, the Jew flays the Church for being unChristian, is condemned to burn. The facts that the flames do not harm him, that he dies spontaneously in a sudden glow of light, make it obvious that the Jew is redeemed...
...atheist will argue that there is no soul to depart from a corpse, a believer will say that the soul is immortal, but both agree that after death, the body is just a worthless piece of flesh. Why then, give this 98? worth of lifeless meat an all-metal casket costing thousands of dollars, an expensive monument, a shower of floral wreaths and a long line of hired cars filled by hired mourners...
time, I don't see to save my soul; If 1 can't get a pardon, try me in a parole...
...most critics Stravinsky was most inspired during the four Paris years that followed. His Firebird was a blaze of color, marvelously decorative in every detail. Year later came Petroitchka, with Nijinsky enacting the poor sawdust puppet who briefly had a soul. In that exuberant work woodwinds ran riot and to many they seemed altogether tuneless...
...Germany is on her feet again. Miracles are done by faith and the Germans have found a new and potent faith which has given Germany a new soul. Germany is a new Sparta...