Word: soul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...floes were in full flight down the river. At last the Kremlin's onion domes were bare of snow. In Sokolniki Park, small boys whooped after model planes and grownups silently drank up the sun. It was the time when, Chekhov wrote, "spring is ready to enter the soul...
...Nasser slogans. Huge new color pictures of Nasser billowed from office buildings and military headquarters. Nasser partisans seized control of Aleppo radio and practically declared war on Damascus by announcing that "free officers" were in control of northern Syria and demanding instant union with Egypt. "We belong heart and soul to Nasser!" cried the announcer. "We are his lion cubs! Long live Arab unity...
...Seasons, by Robert Bolt, might have drawn its theme from Shakespeare's "Every subject's duty is the king's, but every subject's soul is his own." Playing Sir Thomas More, Paul Scofield is flawless...
...warning of one of his own characters that "Eastern philosophers are often rather bad talkers"? Weight of Dandruff. Huxley's hero is William Farnaby, a successful journalist who blunders into Pala by inadvertence and a fortuitous shipwreck. In Huxley's eyes, Farnaby represents a sickness in the soul of modern man. With his "flayed ferocious grin," Farnaby is aware of his own wretchedness and the corruption of the world to which he belongs, and there hovers about him a good deal of the sad seediness of the inhabitants of the early Huxley world of London intellectuals...
...while both Jorge and Viridiana are away from home, the lower orders rise up and breach the walls of privilege. Eager as rats they scatter through the house, squeaking and plundering, happy as fiends with a rich man's soul. Out come the linens and the candelabra, the rare wines, the cates and dainties, a whole lamb. Like dukes the poor pilgarlics sit them down to a palatial feast that rapidly degenerates into a gutter brawl. But the brawl is intended also as a rite, as the dissolution of a desiccated society in a Dionysian mystery. In the depths...