Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the time had come to assert the ascendancy of police force over soul force. First Nehru ordered that there be no more satyagraha against Goa. "As a government," he said, "we obviously cannot have satyagraha against another government. Governments do not do that sort of thing." Then, exerting all the strength of his prestige and popularity, Nehru compelled the Congress Party executive to reverse its Goa resolution of last July and vote, ruefully but unanimously, to renounce satyagraha as a method of political action, "whether undertaken individually or collectively...
...volume biography (TIME, Oct. 19, 1953) took the subject through his youth-including such matters as breast-feeding and sibling rivalry. The present volume-continues Freud's fascinating case history, taking him up to the age of 63. It shows Freud moving in on the new century whose soul he was to haunt and, in large measure, to dominate...
...outstanding brushwork and 2) consuming sake. Advised by a professor to drink either one sho (3.8 pints) of sake a day or nothing, Yokoyama took to the bottle in earnest. Today he begins his day by downing a prebreakfast glass full of his favorite sake brand, "Inebriate Soul", during the rest of the day manages to down two full quarts. Vainly his wife tries to force more food on him; the only visible result is that Yokoyama's dog grows fatter. Last April when Yokoyama scalded his feet in a piping-hot Japanese bath, his first question...
...Joan Crawford, the widow of a gambler, has a soul as rubbery as Chandler's pectorals, though not so much in evidence. "Ben was older than I was," she explains, "and rich ... I didn't know very much when I met him, but what I knew I knew well." Jeff has a confession to make too. "I don't hate women," he mutters. "I just hate the way they are." "I wish I could afford you," murmurs Joan. "Save your pennies," he encourages...
...dark, that is, of the German soul. In Mann's sensibility, the yawning portal of burgher respectability leads only to hell-that same hell in which Nietzsche, lonely and restless, contracted the syphilis that drove him insane, and in which sentimental devotees of Brahms Lieder ran concentration camps...