Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confidence that the earth can be improved through social action or scientific gimcrackery: "One can safely say after from six to thirty thou sand years of experience that the evident design is a situation here in which it will always be about equally hard to save your soul. Whatever progress may be taken to mean, it can't mean making the world any easier a place in which to save your soul...
...Schildkraut, as the head of the family of characters, is excellent. He portrays a tormented soul, whose author has mistakenly chosen a bad moment for the exposure of his inner self. In his expression, his gestures, and his voice, Schildkraut mirrors Pirandello's character in near-perfect fashion. Miss Ford also performs credibly, but on opening night there was just a little bit too much of the philosophical in her voice, a little too much posing in her gestures...
...another page, scholars found a typical bit of Boswell soul-searching. "I am a weaker man than can well be imagined," he wrote. "My brilliant qualities are like embroidery upon gauze." By last week, Yale was happy to say that the embroidery was probably at last...
...that black is white and that white is black." Malik's retort made spectators grin: Tsiang's reference to black & white was "an insult to 14 million Negroes in the U.S." He added heavily: "White men, too, may have a black conscience and a black soul...
...Matthew 22:37-39: "Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself...