Word: soul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...illustrated by one checking query which asked: "Is it true that northern Dahomeans still practice cannibalism?'' His answer: "Yes. When something unfortunate happens to a member of a tribe in that area, it is common belief that someone else in the tribe has somehow 'eaten his soul.' The offender is sought out, poisoned and eaten by the tribe...
...does not require that they abandon their discontent. This discontent is sound and healthy. Nonviolence saves it from degenerating into morbid bitterness and hatred. Hate is always tragic. It is as injurious to the hater as it is to the hated. It distorts the personality and scars the soul. Psychiatrists are telling us now that many of the inner conflicts and strange things that happen in the subconscious are rooted in hate. So they are now saying, "Love or perish." This is the beauty of nonviolence. It says you can struggle without hating; you can fight war without violence...
...masters and suffered injustice and humiliation, but out of a bottomless vitality continued to live and grow. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not extinguish our existence, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We feel that we are the conscience of America-we are its troubled soul...
...were trying. "Generally speaking," she said, "they have a lot to learn in the realm of the senses," and she was astonished to discover that the Bible and the telephone directory were about the only books Weaver had read. "Yet his relative lack of culture may explain his simple soul and limited imagination-that is, his happiness." Even so, Réalités' second examination of the U.S. inspired in Editor Max a new optimism about "our partner." Said he: "It seems that American society, after passing through a long stage of materialism and fascination with the dollar...
This period of soul-searching may be difficult, but it is essential to the experience. As one parachuting enthusiast from the Harvard community points out. "The adventure is especially unique because it is 'internalized...