Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their rifles, and in buffalo country the living was easy. But there were times when roots, dried berries and their horses and dogs stood between them and starvation. Wrote Lewis on Jan. 5, 1806: "I have learned to think that if the chord be sufficiently strong, which binds the soul and boddy together, it dose not so much matter about the materials which compose...
...Boswell concluded his tour, he was pleased with the results. With characteristic candor he wrote, "What a singular being do I find myself!... I have a noble soul which still shines forth, a certain degree of knowledge, a multiplicity of ideas of all kinds, an original humor and turn of expression, and, I really believe, a remarkable knowledge of human nature...
...Tears, for Tributes. Their honeymoon in Acapulco inspired María Bonita ("Remember those nights in Acapulco, María of my soul?"). She called him "My Skinny" (Lara says he weighs 120 Ibs. "with an overcoat on"). He rained minks, Cadillacs and diamonds on María. But the rising young star was hard to hold, and they were divorced in 1947, leaving Lara heartbroken. He told friends: "I love María too much . . . Rather than kill her I prefer to divorce...
...trouble. A fiery liberal, he was once exiled by Primo de Rivera, accused Alfonso XIII of being "unfit" to govern, attacked the republic and the rebels in turn, was finally dismissed by Franco. Though passionately religious, he could find no proof in logic for the immortality of the soul, felt that the only thing man could do was to "spend your life so that you deserve to be immortal." To some segments of official Spain, Unamuno was a heretic...
...repeated his "joke" again and again until some of his friends got bored with it. He even made arrangements with the undertaker for his burial in the family vault. The fish merchant took him for a ride on his lurching truck one day and tried to warn him: "Your soul will be eternally damned," but Marc only answered, "I must do what I must...