Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...felt a twinge of concern at the thought that Mr. Romney's company might try to combat Big Three competition by following along with the planned-obsolescence idea. Since the compact-car buyer is a discerning soul, he is not happy with yearly model changes. What he desires is gradual improvement where improvements count: in engine efficiency, better braking, lighter weight, lowered drag, better suspensions, readability...
...idioms in general lend themselves only with great difficulty to anything approaching the sublime. After all, though a tinkle-tinkle here and there in a Webern score may satiate one's thirst for the piquant and highly flavored, it does not quench the far more important thirst of the soul. Elevated feeling in the human spirit is generally ignored by modern composers, but it is an important response to the musical art. Any thinking person who made a list of the ten greatest compositions would have to include some exalted music--like the Sanctus of Bach's B Minor Mass...
THROUGHOUT Asia, some 500 million people-including the Dalai Lama-practice Buddhism. An outgrowth of Hinduism, Buddhism accepts the central Hindu idea of reincarnation: every soul turns on a wheel through a recurring drama of birth, death and rebirth. Existence is pain. The root of pain is desire. By following the Way of Buddha, a man can eliminate desire and win ultimate knowledge. Depending on his works, a man may be reincarnated as a prince or a panda. Therefore, all life is sacred. A true Buddhist should not kill a fly or step on an insect because-literally...
...camera makes a visit to Joe's home town, that he has good reasons for being what he is; Dufton is a bombed-out, soot-seared 19th century factory slum. And something, perhaps the innocence of Joe's vulgarity, suggests that underneath his soot there is a soul...
...what earned Frank Lloyd Wright the grudging but nearly universal respect of his fellow architects was his insistence that architecture must be an art. "What people want, what they desperately need," Wright said, "is some communication of the spirit, some quality of the soul." It was toward that aim that Wright's whole genius was directed. Almost uniquely among architects, he was able to develop his own particular vision in terms of one highly individualistic but consistent idiom of forms. His prodigious explorations of space and form marked and celebrated Frank Lloyd Wright and his own time on earth...