Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rank well below his own high par in the entertainment field, its lines contain plenty of material for concerned Christians to chew on. Sample: Thank God our time is now when wrong Rises to face us everywhere, Never to leave us till we take The longest stride of soul men ever took. Affairs are now soul size. The enterprise Is exploration into God, Where no nation's foot has ever trodden yet. . . . It takes So many thousand years to wake, But will you wake for pity's sake, Pete's sake, Dave or one of you, Wake...
...Inward prayer is the nourishment of the soul," he wrote. "For one may pray without forming or uttering any words, without consideration or speculation of the mind . . . yea, without knowing the least thing in a manner relative to the outward senses. And this prayer is the Prayer of the Heart, the unutterable prayer, the most perfect of which is the fruit of Love, and the less perfect a sensibility of our indigencies...
...Ghost is as dull-witted as it is snail-paced. At the final curtain it is, dramatically, still wading out toward where it is deep enough to swim. The play pins all its laughs on how visible ghosts are, instead of how mischievous. Actually, the Gramercy Ghost is the soul of sedateness-a pure Caspar Milqueghost-a fatal error in a play where the flesh & blood set seems anything...
...poured in to him from congregations across the country. In 1941 the First Presbyterian Church of Seattle offered its pulpit at a tempting boost in pay (a starting salary of $8,500 a year, with annual increases of $700 guaranteed up to $12,000). After nearly two months of soul-searching, Ockenga turned the offer down, to his congregation's surprise and joy. "Now what you say to us will mean more," said a member of his flock, and the Park Street Church has grown by 50% since that time. Last year Ockenga was sparkplug and chief organizer...
...Long View. Today, thinks Santayana, both the U.S. and Russia "aspire to be universal; and under either of them, if absolutely dominant, mankind might become safe, law-abiding, sporting, and uniform." And under either, the individual soul attempting to follow its "native bent" might find itself in a spiritual concentration camp. Since he dreads the export of America's "commercial" culture as much as any French intellectual who winces at the sight of a Coke, Santayana feels that perhaps the "barbarians" of the East might organize the future better than the "decadent" technicians of the West. "Conviction has deserted...