Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Levi Coffin of Cincinnati," founder of the Underground Railroad for runaway slaves; Allan is armed with a hunting knife for killing abolitionists, but is charmed into nonaggression by the old Quaker's "thees" and "thous." Later, Allan searches out John Brown at Harpers Ferry, "to pour out his soul." Before long, he knows that "he was dealing with a lunatic or a martyr." Allan can do nothing, either, with Jefferson Davis, except stare into his eyes and say: "God grant you wisdom, Mr. Davis." Later, he regrets not having "poured out his soul," but he wisely suppresses the impulse...
...month suspended sentence on a charge of being a public nuisance. He was arrested again and carted off to a psychiatric examination, but the doctors could find nothing more than the disorders of love. Francesco went back to following his beloved, crying after her, "Darling wife, sweet love, my soul!" When Angela answered "Imbecile!" he would say worriedly, "Have I offended you? I didn't mean...
...system, framework of values, ideology, call it what you will," said Huxley, will have "no need or room for the supernatural." It will be evolutionary, because "the earth was not created, it evolved. So did all the animals and plants that inhabit it, including our human selves, mind and soul as well as brain and body...
They Came to Cordura. Gary Cooper on another western road, but this time the villain is cowardice, and the showdown involves not the fall of a body but the rise of a soul...
They Came to Cordura. Gary Cooper on another western road, but this time the villain is cowardice, and the showdown involves not the fall of a body but the rise of a soul...