Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wherever the idea of Protestantism goes, "it breaks men's chains, imparts freedom of soul and mind and body, lifts men ... to new and ever more creative patterns of social and spiritual responsibility." And "the American heritage is the Protestant heritage . . . Protestants came to America, settled America, made America after the likeness of their own ideal." Among the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, 34 were Episcopalians, 13 Congregationalists, six Presbyterians, one Baptist, one Quaker and one Roman Catholic. Before affixing his signature, each man bowed his head in prayer...
Both kinds of illness pried her away from Murry; she spent much time in the south of France trying to recover, but even more in a kind of private hell. The letters are bulletins posted outside the sick room of her soul. At first, pet names (she was "Tig" or "Wig," he was "Jag" or "Bogey") and candid passion masked the symptoms. "I love you with every inch of me . . . You are my perfect lover . . . Hold me, Bogey, when I write those words, for I am in your arms . . . Now I am giving you all sorts of little hugs...
...that she will marry him and bear his child, but will not lie and say that she loves him. At the end, she goes to her death for a brigand whose only caress was administered with a horsewhip. Saint-Benoist is caught up in a struggle to save his soul. Oldhorse, the man with a vision, drives on to his goal (the establishment of a humanitarian-and profitable-state) with the world-weariness of the true devotee. "I'm tired, Jan," he once murmurs, "tired to death of all these people who love...
...Body & Soul...
...fastidious soul once ordered a navy suit on the fourth floor, and asked for a swatch of material so that she could have her new Cadillac painted to match it. Another customer spent days at Bergdorf's buying piles of clothes before a trip to Europe. When she got to London, she cabled frantically that she was short of clothes. Would Bergdorf's please send her 24 more outfits, in beige, grey, black and brown? One matron delighted in buying $60 Bergdorf hats for her dachshund; another regularly bought ermine capes for her granddaughter's doll collection...