Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Hamburg city council took pity on Private Schleicher, and passed a special legislative act granting him full pardon for everything. But bitterness had entered the sack's sad soul. "I'm going to spend my life," he swore, "fighting the stupid red tape which is entangling every German...
...pianist who likes to take things easy, he cocked his head, grunted snatches of This Can't Be Love and Body and Soul in a voice that has more soul than body. Nobody cared about that. It was what was going on at the keyboard that counted. Garner sometimes plays with a relaxed but rollicking bounce, his right hand dallying attractively behind the foot-tapping beat of his left. Other times he just gets slow and dreamy, playing around the melody a lot of quiet chords that have just enough bite to keep the customers awake; but this harmonic...
...puts the criminal above the crime, is not primarily concerned with" settling "a bill in accordance with some tariff." But unlike the psychologist, he does not regard guilt as "an illusion, a form of groundless self-torment." He regards it rather as indispensable, for "in the life of the soul no magic wand is waved, no slate is simply sponged." The Christian's final responsibility is not to abolish the delinquent's guilt-the one means of redemption- but to share it. "He will regard his own possible part in the other's rehabilitation as strictly subordinate...
Theron Lamar Caudle knew the friendliest people. Recently fired as head of the Justice Department's tax division, Caudle last week told a House subcommittee about some of his generous acquaintances. Punctuating his testimony with such exclamations as "Oh, my soul... Lord have mercy . . . Lord God almighty," Caudle writhed on the witness stand, lifting his hands above his head, joining them as if in prayer and rolling his banjo eyes upward. In a cotton-thick North Carolina drawl, he denied that he had done any tax favors for the men who treated him so generously...
...athletic heritage for a mess of pottage . . . We must be willing to accept in part the blame for the inroads made by protected gambling into the field of university athletics .. . You can't buy a boy's body and expect him to play with his heart and soul...