Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Archbishops of Canterbury and York were waiting in the castle's Chapel of St. George to perform the last rites. The Primate spoke the old words from the Book of Common Prayer: "Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God of His great mercy to take unto Himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust." From a silver bowl, Elizabeth II took a handful of earth and dropped it on the coffin as it slowly sank to the vault below...
...stroke; in penury in a borrowed villa on the Isle of Capri. The son of a Scottish cotton-mill owner, Douglas first journeyed to Capri in 1888, on the trail of a rare species of blue lizard, fell in love with the island and made it his soul's operating base. In his middle 40s, he denounced Christian conventions as a sham, declared that Western civilization was inferior to Oriental culture, made a faint bow to convention by closing all letters to his son Robin with: "Brush your teeth twice a day!" He might have made a fortune from...
...suppressing that awareness. But to some there comes a time when they hear screams in the night -screams "from the execution cellars ... from the torture chambers . . . from . . . the freezing filth of subarctic labor camps." For "there persists in every man, however he may deny it, a scrap of soul." The communist who does not stifle that scrap of soul begins to lose faith in his vision of man without God. Chambers records that his own loss of faith began on "a very casual" occasion. He was watching his daughter at her breakfast...
...those intricate, perfect ears. The thought passed through my mind: . . . They could have been created only by immense design. The thought was involuntary and unwanted ... If I had completed it, I should have had to say: Design presupposes God." Ultimately, Chambers did complete the thought, because "the soul has a logic that may be more compelling than the mind...
...sparked by Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Carl Sandburg and Edgar Lee Masters. Robinson found the poetic landscape "flowing with milk and water." He injected the gall & wormwood of realism. In general, he celebrated the individual, not by tracking the footprints of great men, but by tracing the soul-prints of weak ones. The Miniver Cheevys, the Richard Corys, the fumblers, the failures, the souses were not freaks to him but symbols of man's suffering lot. Calling himself a man "born with my skin inside out," he could not resign himself to man's fate, nor could...