Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavy work and sheer competence, and by a warmth which could not long go undetected, he beat this hostility. Political acumen and cool craft have by necessity remained, but combined with tolerance, with sympathy and generosity-in short, with what one professor splay called "manners of the soul...
...darkness. When he first introduced human life, he painted men that were half lobster, half electric chair, tormenting each other. "We are all monsters," Matta says, with absolute conviction. But the new subject of his art is what Matta variously describes as "the morning on earth," and "the real soul which is tenderness toward everything alive...
...Forward, Woods!" cried Albert Woods to his diary in the high spirits of youth. "Let your light shine!" Poor Albert-fate had equipped him with a million-watt ambition, but his soul was wired for common house-current. Or, as British Author William Cooper states it in this entertaining novel about The Struggles of Albert Woods: "Can you be a great man if you have a touch of the little man? That was Albert Woods's life problem...
...harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled...
...late, on the winning side." A lifelong fame-seeker, (most famous remark: "Thank God, I am famous!"), Joad talked students of the Oxford Union into resolving (in 1933) that they would under no circumstances fight for king and country, later soared to great popular heights as the life and soul of the BBC's quiz panel, "Brains Trust." In his later years, he veered back to religion (the Anglican Church), confessed that "Christianity works better than any thing else I have heard...