Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believe that I should be very welcome everywhere." Even so sharp-eyed an English observer as Charles I's Ambassador, the Earl of Carlisle, wrote home from the Continent: "He made mee believe that nothing but good intentions and sincerity have been in his heart, which on my soul I think is trew, because in other things I finde him a reall man." Page to Painter. Rubens' success story had an early beginning. As a page in the house of the Countess of Lalaing, he learned the elaborate etiquette of baroque court life while still in his teens...
...even more difficult when the classic Romeo-and-Juliet aspect of feuds crops up in the love affair of Honoré's daughter and Maloret's son. The complications, always hilarious and elaborated with much Ayméan gusto, come thick and fast. But Honoré, the soul of goodness and absolutely free of guile, cannot live down the need for revenge. In the last Rabelaisian scene he stuffs...
CHICAGO TRIBUNE: the President said that he was a candidate, many Democrats concluded that the best course was to nominate some expendable and ambitious soul to have the rug pulled out from under him. Mr. Stevenson, other wise admirably fitted for the role, isn't going to be available if he meets any further reverses. Senator Kefauver is as light as a cork. His only qualification is his ambition, which commends him to few besides himself. Governor Harriman is colorless. It begins to look as if the Democrats may have difficulty finding someone to stand on that carpet...
...Germany's greatest sculptors, Ernst Barlach. He died in 1938, shunned by his townspeople, condemned (falsely) as a Jew and Bolshevik. His work, based on the centuries-old tradition of wood carving and German Gothic art, was banned as "degenerate" and typical of "the passive Slav soul...
Gandhi called his version of civil disobedience "Satyagraha," or Soul Force. The word comes from satya, meaning truth, and agraha, meaning firmness. The former implies love, Gandhi wrote, and the latter, force; in other words, Satyagraha is "the Force which is born of Truth and Love or non-violence." "Satyagraha," Gandhi explained, "postulates the conquest of the adversary by suffering in one's own person," and it demands that every civil resister disobey a law that is counter to his own conscience and cheerfully to demand the punishment for breaking the law. This weapon, which was to shake the British...