Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...GUTS' the Guardian printed chunks of a recent editorial from the CRIMSON about a trend in American education towards "safe plodding rather than expression of unpopular opinions." Our editorial had been run as a commentary on a "Daily Dartmouth" ed entitled "Mr. Zero IV"--an impassioned job of soul searching which concluded that students "had stopped looking at the Other Side, ceased reading and thinking about it." We decided that the fault was not only in colleges but everywhere...
...stifling of unpopular opinion. We had nothing to say about the President's statement, with which we largely agree, and which is politically very far from "safe plodding." We thank the Guardian for its pat on the back, and commend to it a good stiff session with its own soul...
...should not have been surprised if the voice had commanded me to stop drinking. But this was not the message at all ... My self was my trouble-my love of myself, my fear of anything that might frustrate my wishes . . . False pride had erected a barrier between my soul and God. This pride had to go-in one way or another. I am grateful now that it was taken away-even through alcoholism...
...dramatic outlet became more urgent than ever. The pictures father Norman took on his rare, explosive visits show her as a leggy towhead assuming all the languorous and seductive poses common to the movie magazines of the day. When no camera was at hand, Barbara would register her soul-searing emotions before a mirror. Her sister Joan and her mother, who disapproved of the children going to movies, called it "making faces...
...Tolstoy was the last man to discourage the Khokhlovs; he believed in soul-searching for everybody...