Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...create this Government to give us happiness. Far better they knew than to try to define for any one of us happiness." What they did promise was the right to "the pursuit of happiness - our liberty - each according to his own desires, to the deepest aspirations of his own soul...
...scholastic system of theology, "glittering and shapely as a machine." Scholastic theology's two fundamentals, says Witcutt, are the Abstract Idea (the essence of every object is comprehensible only to the mind, which is immaterial, spiritual and immortal) and the Beatific Vision ("the plunge of the soul into the Divine...
...heartbreak of man's own making. A clerk breaks a leg running out on the girl he gets into trouble; his father's cast-off shoes hurt a schoolboy's heart much more than his feet; a tottering old watchman asks a Mass for the soul of a soldier he had killed as a youth. Together, such simple and tenderly told stories make a haunting picture of a Dublin not so very different, after 40 years, from the Dublin of Joyce's short stories...
Miss Helen Keller has doubtless much to teach us who have our normal physical eyes as to what and how to see. She impresses one as a person of great soul-wealth. Hers is a most meaningful face, possessed with an ideal worthy of any human being. She is very vivacious and looks healthy and happy. She answered all my questions herself but Miss Thompson had to repeat to me all her words as I could understand only a very few words which she pronouced very distinctly indeed. A stranger has to be used to her speech before...
...right cell, and escape to freedom with the Reds chasing foolishly after them. Displaying scarcely more hesitation than a plump matron deciding between a chocolate eclair and a napoleon, Susan lets her husband -who seems glad to get away - fly back to the States, and chooses Clark as her soul mate. Their final clinch halfway up a mountainside is mercifully dwarfed by a staggeringly beautiful panorama of Hong Kong...