Word: soul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stock market thus has plainly found its legs again, and its self-confidence. From the high it set in December 1961, it had fallen off gradually, and then abruptly in the near-panic of Blue Monday, May 28, 1962, before hitting bottom a month later at 535.76. Any courageous soul who bought one share of each of the 30 stocks in the Dow-Jones industrial average on Blue Monday would have found his $1,727 investment worth $2,187 last week...
...organizations seized upon Randolph's old idea, called upon sympathizers everywhere for a "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom." Representatives of different, often rival, organizations got together, fired out to state and local representatives volley after volley of handbooks, bulletins, press releases, charts, schedules, visceral warnings and soul-stirring exhortations. Said one broadside: "We march to redress old grievances and to help resolve an American crisis born of the twin evils of racism and deprivation." The march organizers listed the demands that the parade would symbolize. Among them: 1) passage of the Kennedy Administration's civil rights...
...This Girl is a Liar." Great dollops of sensitivity and rebellion may be expected in reminiscences of childhood, and poor little Shelagh Delaney is no exception, though the tough, sullen delinquent pose she adopted to protect her secret soul is fairly new in this genre. She is adept at putting the false comic nose on the face of authority, and all get a good laugh from the schoolmaster who told her she was "a long streak of nothing," from Mum, and from the dear silly nuns who had her in charge for a while. We learn without astonishment that they...
...title would appear to give the lie direct to Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West. His book indeed emerges, though he nowhere claims such a purpose, as an arresting alternative to the speculations and systems of Arnold Toynbee, too. Here are no gloomy metaphysics about the soul of a culture or its organic life cycle, no simplistic tabulations of 21 separate civilizations mechanically rising and then running down in helpless isolation from one another...
...second: The March will show that isolated demonstrations are not mere symbols of discontent but express what is felt in the "heart and soul" of the Negro and his allies; there is a common denominator to all the discontent...