Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...realized, realized in all my brain and guts, what a banner in the sky the Stars and Stripes have been. I honestly never quite grasped how big and simple and decisive were all the things that it meant, to people, almost everywhere on earth. You know-freedom for every soul among us, justice in every court, opportunity, homes, schools, decency toward your neighbors, fairness in all things. I never realized, as I say, how people everywhere saw all this as quickly as they looked at us or thought of us. Now-that shudder of surprise and revulsion that these same...
...supreme god. Born miraculously (out of a rock), he was first adored by gift-bearing shepherds. He suffered various adversities but at last ascended to heaven. Mithraism used bells and candles in its ritual, as well as communion and holy water. It taught immortality of the soul, the resurrection of the flesh and the last judgment...
Ugetsu. A weird and lovely Japanese film; in an Oriental spirit, the camera meditates the eye of a hurricane in a human soul (TIME, Sept...
...Knopf; $3.95). An arresting fictionalization, lightly laced with sex, of one of history's most famous trials. Unjustly condemned to drink the hemlock on the charge that he was impious and had corrupted the young, Socrates refuses to escape and save his skin, preferring to save his soul. Not nearly as perceptive an account as Plato's, of course, but full of lively local color (garlic-eating jurymen, the seductive street wiles of Athenian slave girls) and a sympathetic look at Socrates' much maligned wife, Xanthippe...
Living to Eat. Rama is a simple soul who, like Candide, thinks he is living in the best of all possible worlds. He can scarcely believe what is happening to him until he is down to the last princely robe on his back. Fortunately, the Hermitage of Gluttons takes the exiles in. The Gluttons' creed: "A man lives by eating . . . Whatever gods there be, one of them must be in a man's belly." Rama joins them in sacrificing to their god three times a day, and finds a friend in one fellow traveler of the Gluttons...