Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Already the moral weaklings are forsaking us. It is with heavy heart that I note that a former ally, Britain, which sacrificed millions of lives on the altar of freedom, has now been taken by its leaders into the wilderness of political intrigue. Britain has bartered the soul of a nation for a few pieces of silver. I say 'for shame' to Britain. One day these pieces of silver will bear interest in British blood, sweat and tears on the battleground of freedom. For that which is morally wrong can never be politically right...
Rich in songs is the history of slavery. Toiling on the Great Pyramids, Egyptian slaves intoned rhythmical chants (sample: "Hey, you, work! You, get up!"). Dixie's Negroes put body & soul into their work songs. Volga boatmen were soothed by the haunting tautology of Ei Ukhnem. More recently, political prisoners in Nazi concentration camps composed and sang such songs as the now famous Peat-Bog Soldiers...
...sawdust ring, but a seal suddenly released into a tank of water -lithe, graceful, confident and effortless. Subtly and with never a false move, Carol's whole expressive body flows with the rhythm of the music. As she sings, every motive in Lorelei's predacious little soul becomes hilariously clear. At the end of her first chorus, both Carol and Lorelei Lee belong to the audience forever. What Author Loos wrote between the lines and accented in the quaint misspellings of her slim novel back in 1925, Actress Channing hurls across the footlights in broad strokes of pantomime...
...marchers . . ." Just like all the other authors of this volume, Koestler decided "that in the face of revolting injustice the only honorable attitude is to revolt, and to leave introspection for better times ... I was one of those half-virgins of the Revolution who could be had . . . body and soul, for the asking." For seven years he did party duty in Germany, France, Spain and England. At first he bowed down before the party slogans: "The front-line is no place for discussions." "Wherever a Communist happens to be ... is ... the front-line...
...spite. When Gerald threatens to beat him, the boy imprisons himself in handcuffs and waits to be killed. To Gerald he cries: "Nobody's ever hated me before, like you do." Gerald protests his affection and the boy. as if suddenly peering into the sickest depths of the soul, replies: "It's the same thing...