Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Saint Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go, I owe my soul to the company store...
...soul to the company store.' " Added a friend: maybe the song strikes home to Americans "because we all live on credit and owe our souls to some sort of company store...
...fine afternoon in December 1872, the brigantine Mary Celeste was picked up heading westward in the South Atlantic under jib and fore-topsail, her galley table set for dinner, and not one soul aboard. Why her master, Captain Benjamin Briggs, his wife, his crew and his passengers-ten in all-should have deserted their ship in midocean is still the sea's most taunting mystery...
When John Sloan Dickey, now 48, took over as twelfth president of Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., he faced what could have been a trying situation. His predecessor, Ernest Martin Hopkins, had been the heart and soul of the college for 29 years, and it seemed almost inevitable that Dickey's first moves would suffer by comparison. As it turned out, they did not. By last week, a decade later, Dartmouth and Dickey had every reason to feel satisfied with each other...
Cards of Identity, by Nigel Dennis. One of the most uncomfortably funny satires ever written on psychoanalysis and modern man's displaced soul (TIME...