Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...embassy at Mexico City with his pretty new wife and helpmate, Sloan, he acted as if nothing had happened at all, at all, and soon had Mexicans of all classes eating out of his hand. Mexico's President Miguel Aleutian, a broad-minded politician, found him a congenial soul. Thousands of other Mexicans were flattered to find that O'Dwyer spoke Spanish (learned as a youth when he studied for the priesthood at Salamanca, Spain), that he liked bullfights, and was a charming and democratic host...
...list of visiting artists. Then the Allegheny Conference on Community Affairs, which had pushed programs to clear the city's smoke-blackened air and give its oppressive architecture a face lifting, set up a committee to see what it could do about the city's musical soul...
...Soul on a Balance Sheet. The story centers around a problem common to many a company: What happens when the top man dies? Avery Bullard is a driving, domineering boss who has pulled a small family-owned furniture company from the brink of bankruptcy and built it into the giant Tredway Corp., one of the biggest in the industry. He has done it with boundless energy, and at the expense of his marriage. Bullard is a believable if not always admirable tycoon; he lives "as if ... his soul would be measured on a balance sheet where there was no credit...
...willing to devote his life to the corporation. In the end, the new president of the Tredway Corp. is a man out of the same mold as Bullard. Yet he realizes, which Bullard did not, that the presidency may turn him into a kind of machine with no soul beyond the corporation. Nevertheless, he can't resist the challenge of the job and the temptation of the ever-expanding frontier. Says he: "We talk about Tredway being a big company now. It isn't. . . We have about 3% of the total [market]-that's all, just...
More important was the problem of religious individuality. Claudel gloried in Catholicism as a "closed system," and frankly stated that because "departures from [Catholic] doctrine involve the soul in terrible risk of eternal damnation, [the church] cannot admit what people call liberty of thought . . ." Gide, bred in a tradition of Huguenot Protestantism, could never accept this view. In one of his rare offensives, he wrote Claudel that he could not abide those Catholics who "use the crucifix as if it were a bludgeon...