Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crafty old nationalist carry their side into the fight. Ex-Premier Paul Reynaud scoffed at "the Eden miracle," warned of the "rebirth of the Wehrmacht" and sarcastically asked: "Will there be a German general staff which will train men a la prussienne and force in them the soul of a German soldier?" Even old Robert Schuman, who probably sacrificed his political future by his long fight for EDC, assumed a slight tinge of nationalism. "There is the risk," said he of the London plan, "that Germany will one day withdraw from this fragile syndicate...
Blues, Ballads and Sin-Songs brought Libby Holman back to Broadway in a one-woman show. A quarter of a century after Body and Soul and Moanin' Low, Libby still looks youthful, her voice is still throaty and smoldering. Last week's music noticeably differed, however, from the songs the siren sang in The Little Show and Three's a Crowd; her present program-some of it suggesting what might be termed musical American primitives-sets her where the nightclub singer merges (or clashes) with the recitalist...
...temporary refuge. Instead, Toynbee suggests a kind of spontaneous rally of faith, possibly even the emergence of a new spiritual species. In the distant future, he foresees a kind of blending of all the higher religions-"a terrestrial Communion of Saints who would be free from sin . . . because each soul . . . would be cooperating with God at the cost of sore spiritual travail...
Beyond the "law of nature" of the scientists, the "laws of history" of the Marxists and Spenglerians, the "economic" and man-made laws worshiped by most modern historians, Western Man must submit once more to the Law of God. "In appealing to the Law of God, a human soul has to abandon certainty in order to embrace Hope and Fear . . . A human soul is apt to find in this what it brings to it . . . The Law of God is freedom itself, under a more illuminating name...
...thwarted by right-thinking Captain Video who, as the press release puts it, is an unbeatable "combination of Einstein, King Arthur and Marco Polo," and Space Patrol's Commander Buzz Corry was zooming through the cosmos intent on reforming the almost limitless supply of villains with his soul-washing Brain-O-Graph...