Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Devil Laughs. "Religion," Philosopher Stace begins, "is the hunger of the soul for the impossible, the unattainable, the inconceivable . . . Either God is a mystery or He is nothing at all." Stace holds that God is such a mystery that any attempt to reason about him, e.g., to prove that God is the Creator of the Universe, is doomed to fail. "To ask for a proof of the existence of God is on a par with asking for a proof of the existence of beauty . . . If God does not lie at the end of any telescope, neither does...
...regenerated by an American priest (Van Johnson) during the 1950 Holy Year in Rome. The picture has several slapsticky cops & robbers chases, some good views of famed Roman churches and some sticky dialogue. Sample: Douglas-"Justice is a blind dame weighing a fish." Johnson-"It's a soul she's weighing." Douglas-"Sole, trout, haddock, what's the difference...
Bishop Sheen's Life Is Worth Living program might put a few psychoanalysts out of business. He has good medicine for a bewildered soul, and a lot more cures for a tired mind than listening to the antics of "Uncle Miltie...
...witch came to town as a bondwoman to the wool merchant's widow. She was a Norse girl, a beauty with "great, sea-grey eyes" and hair "unbelievably golden"; her name was Swan Ygern. Swan healed the Lord Cinqmort of a bloody flux, and so becharmed his wicked soul that he even left off his wenching to eat her beetle puddings under the Weird Oak Tree. She gave her mistress' daughter the dread effigy of St. Uncumber-to whom unwilling wives prayed that he uncumber them of their mates-and when the poor husband failed to die, cast...
...Your soul...