Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Minds still passion-ridden, soul-powers...
...planned from the start as a well-organized stock swindle. He had lied again and again, first indignantly denying all, then thrusting up new lies containing partial admissions. Almost with relish, Van Doren testified that he had been foolish, naive, prideful, avaricious. To the hilt, he was the anguished soul torn by struggles of conscience-and when he finished, there was barely a dry eye among the Congressmen. In an outburst of Senator Claghorn sentimentality, most lauded his "fortitude" and "soul searching." After Van Doren thanked the committee and said he hoped that he would not do "that sort...
Cooper is frightened, but he cannot give in. His heroes embody for him the esoteric principle, the precious bane that alone can heal his life and save his soul: courage. "They have it. I have to save it." He disarms the lot of them, and sleepless, burning-eyed, with the energy of obsession drives them across the desert, drives them without horses, without food, without water toward a little Spanish town whose name means sanity. And as the cruel days go by, the heroes come to see that the coward is the greater hero, the more deeply courageous man. What...
...colleague, Hanns Lilje, Bishop of Hannover. And he said it in a form to which Germans are especially sensitive: a discussion of the text in St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans 13:1 that has sometimes been blamed for Christian docility to Hitler-"Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance...
...Story. The great names of American crime cross the screen like targets in a shooting gallery. Despite the soul-searing domestic difficulties of Special Agent Jimmy Stewart, the picture's documentary air is always absorbing...