Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lived it more intensely, explored it more actively, expressed it more eloquently than any of his contemporaries. Still in his teens, he left his Roman Catholic faith; since then he has been a religious man in search of a religion. The search has carried him wherever men's souls were tried in war, wherever men's souls were expressed in art. He calls it the search for "the honor of being a man." Always he poses the humanist's anguished question: What is to be done with a soul, if there is neither God nor Christ...
Soon Malraux was back in Indo-China, seeking fresh testing places for his soul, and "something outside himself" in revolutions. He organized the "Young Annam" movement, then moved on to Canton. There he met Mikhail Borodin, Russian adviser to China's revolutionaries. Malraux in 1925 helped organize the Canton general strike aimed at British Hong Kong and directed propaganda for the Communist wing of the Kuomintang. He lingered on in China, was probably in Shanghai shortly after the Communist uprising in 1927. Between revolutions, he wandered the world, from India to Japan, from Central Asia...
...court found Kastner even more guilty. "When he accepted the Nazi offer to save 600 Jewish souls," said the judge, "Kastner sold his soul to the devil. Masses were sacrificed for the sake of a few. He broke his trust with Jewry. That was collaboration in the fullest sense of the word." Among the wider jury of Israel's people, the balance between the few and the many was not so easily struck. The violence of the judge's remarks redounded in a certain sympathy for Kastner. Last week, going back and forth to work in a closed...
...Andrea, the only high-ranking Argentine prelate who steadfastly opposed Perón during the 1945-54 period, threw off his colorful vestments at the altar in burned San Miguel Church and told the congregation that henceforth he would wear only simple black as a sign that his soul was in mourning. But the Papal Nuncio, the Vatican's ambassador, began quiet talks with Perón's Foreign Minister. The presumed topic: a concordat that would separate church from state in the manner of most of the rest of the world...
...Takashimaya department store earlier this year sold 35,000 admission tickets in advance. With some half-million followers in Japan making up Japan's second largest flower arranging school,* Sofu now thinks he can afford to ignore the criticism of traditionalists who grumble that "Sofu has taken the soul out of ikebana." In reply Sofu simply quotes his own Grass Moon motto: "Always look forward to a fresh and vivid world and do not become buried in retrospection...