Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the three men are learning their lesson in civil defense, each scratches his soul for a wartime philosophy. "It's the seventh game in the World Series," the cattleman sighs, "and this time, we're the home team." Amid the atomic destruction, there is also a seamy romance between a cynical but brave newspaperman, Gerald Mohr, and a sullen barfly, Peggic Castle...
Kwame Nkrumah's body lies amold'ring in the jail. . . But his soul goes marching...
...presenting Sherlock Holmes in tights, with Dr. Watson dancing by his side to help thwart evil Professor Moriarty, in a ballet called The Great Detective. Such goings-on, rumbled the New York Herald Tribune in an editorial, are "nothing less than revolting . . . enough to outrage one's Victorian soul . . . We recall the prescient words of Sherlock Holmes himself: 'There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible...
Later he could explain: "In the law," he says, "you put your heart and soul into a client, then you go through it again with the next client. All you could build in the law business was a personal reputation I have never been particularly interested in merely building a personal reputation. In business you develop a mine or a plant, or an entire industry. I was more interested in building something you could see or touch...
...week's end, even the News's own columnist, Ed McAuley, was doing some soul-searching. "Newspapers live their shoddiest hours in the time of such court trials as the [recent] paternity case...