Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mesta, until her curious houseboy spotted a strange pushbutton in the kitchen, touched it. Soon, in answer to the robbery alarm, Perle, unprepared for an impromptu party, was visited by a horde of uninvited guests-six uniformed cops, two detectives, two alarmed men from the alarm company. Ever the soul of aplomb, ex-Minister to Luxembourg Mesta excb'ned it all, graciously bade a happy holiday to her callers...
...sights on the Yard. Despite the accuracy and perception of many of Marquand's comments on the nature of Harvard, his viewpoint has certain limitations. Marquand's Harvard is that of the pre-World War II days: Harvard as a veritable breeding ground of class-consciousness, and the very soul of New England social-financial distinctions...
Lion & Oryx. Thus the rhino has been hunted almost to extinction. In Nepal says Talbot, the Indian rhinoceros has another ecological problem. The Nepalese use rhinos to speed the upward reincarnation of the souls of their ancestors The cure for delay in this process is to kill a rhino, sit inside its carcass, and drink to the health of the ancestor's soul in rhino blood...
...Harvard graduation through the teaching days and European travels to the comfortable room in the hospital retreat in Rome, among whose ministering nuns Santayana died in 1952 at the age of 88. Skeptical, epigrammatic, gracefully literate, the letters are not so much the adventures among masterpieces of a soul as of a finicky cultural palate...
...suitably secluded backroom. Happens, however, he runs into Sky Masterson (Marlon Brando), a curly wolf at all games of chance, and lays the sucker a G he cannot make it to Havana, inside 24 hours, with a doll (Jean Simmons) named Sarah Brown, from the Save-A-Soul Mission...