Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warns the king: "Your first sin against God was doubt." Hounded by the sense that he has failed God's trust, Saul loses faith in himself and those around him. Suspicion of David (who becomes a national hero with the slaying of Goliath) gnaws at Saul's soul until he is obsessed with the idea that he must either kill David or be killed by him. Even after he recognizes David's loyalty, Saul convinces himself that he must hunt David to his death to preserve Israel's hard-won unity. Interrupted by an invasion from...
Alex Falconer is a bearded, swashbuckling lieutenant who bullies his crew and junior officers, gulps down immense quantities of whisky, cheats at cards, and wenches indiscriminately. The slow trip down Britain's east coast becomes, in part, Lieutenant Falconer's uneasy odyssey in search of his own soul-a search begun when he learns that a chance bed companion is to bear him a child, and completed when he walks along the littered beach at Normandy. "All along the shore, bodies-beautiful, naked, torn and shattered bodies, a head here, an arm, a leg there-protruded like marbles...
...Humane Thing. When the kidnaper gave no sign of responding to the appeal, police admitted to newsmen that Peter Weinberger's survival was now "a matter for conjecture." At week's end, with little to report, newsmen had time to do some earnest soul-searching. Though other dailies continued to print pointed explanations of why the blackout had failed, the News stuck to its story that the police request for secrecy had been made too late. Other newsmen were outspokenly skeptical...
...early, noisy atheism; after long illness; in Florence, Italy. A revolutionary turned ascetic, near-blind Author Papini dallied with the Devil nearly all his life ("My relations with the Devil are very ancient ... It seems to me important that men should know him intimately"), made emptiness of the soul his province with his bleak rendering (1931) of Gog ("Is not bread perhaps the only thing that nourishes man, the only truth in the world?"). Long after his return to Roman Catholicism, Papini could still write hopefully in il Diavolo (1953): "Theological treatises will continue to say no to the doctrine...
...voluptuousness and suffering, all equally delicious." What is not delicious about Hélène and what finally destroys her relationship with Jean is her feral determination to belong only to herself. Outwardly unmarred but inwardly depraved, she is a female Dorian Gray. But even with an unbeautiful soul, the game of love is scarcely over at 18, and with her penchant for sequels, Author Mallet-Joris may yet salvage Hélène in time to win some future match...