Word: soul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JONATHAN SWIFT, by Nigel Dennis. A clinical closeup of the most powerful ironist in British letters, who was also the blackest of all the great blackguards to lacerate man's conscience, until his own raging soul sank into stupor and lunacy...
Having "proved" behavior deterministic, Loeb moved on to fertilization, for he found that vitalists (who opposed mechanists) were always using the mystery of the process of fertilization to slip a soul into animals. In 1899, by chemical alterations in water containing sea urchin eggs, he was able to fertilize the eggs and cause them to develop into larvae without any male sperm at all. For this work he gained world renown. Professor Fleming's introduction recounts that maiden ladies stopped bathing at the sea shore for fear of what the water might do to them; barren couples earnestly entreated Loeb...
JONATHAN SWIFT, by Nigel Dennis. A clinical closeup of the most powerful ironist in British letters, who was also the blackest of all the great blackguards to lacerate man's conscience, until his own raging soul sank into stupor and lunacy...
...wasteland), if it wasn't for Miss Kate, the spinster guardian who keeps threatening to have Henry sent back to prison if he don't give up that fool music. When Miss Kate dies, Henry flies into a necro-filial rage and attacks the poor soul in her very grave. That sort of thing makes a bad impression in Columbus, Texas. Soon Georgette and her daughter are alone again, smiling through their tears as the young deputy Mr. Slim (Don Murray) drives them out of town toward The Valley. Of course, evrabody knows where The Valley is. Lies...
...craftsmanship. For Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Loire constructed 22,000 foot-square glass blocks. No two are alike; all are completely abstract. The canons of modern architecture can make a well-lit garage as well as a bright cathedral, but building to enlighten man's soul requires a special illumination. Says Glassmaker Loire: "A stained glass window should be something unreal-something between heaven and earth-which, in fact, it literally...