Word: soul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week is work ing imaginatively to make a happier and more beautiful city for all its people. New Orleans, the Crescent City that habitually bubbles like a Jeroboam of Mumm, struggled agonizingly back from the flat despair sowed by Hurricane Betsy. And in New York, after years of soul-deadening drift, the voters leaned forward for what looked like the first no-holds-barred, two-party mayoral contest in years...
...Salvation, for Goethe, lies in man's capacity to reconcile these opposites in creative activity. For creation, for a true birth, the feminine vessel is necessary as well as the masculine spark; but the problem of woman involves the problem of evil; and so Faust sells his soul to the Devil in return for the love of the loveliest woman alive. Seduced by the Devil, he seduces Gretchen, gets her with child, abandons her to a disgraceful death. At the end of Part One, Faust is doomed...
...Journal of a Soul, Pope John XXIII...
...waiting colleagues in New York of the delay. A U.S. official in the VIP lounge, according to Lee, said: "No, no, no, don't worry. We will look after it. We have a special network." "Special network," snorted Lee last week. "When we arrived, there was not a soul, not a soul...
Eventually, Jacques learns that he can see through things as though they do not exist. He can make people disappear at will; he walks raptly through the daylit Paris streets and the roaring Metro without seeing a soul. Time loses its meaning; he comes home one evening to discover to his mild surprise that he has been away for three whole days...