Word: soul
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drafted a statement explaining his recent bizarre behavior. "During the past several years, and most especially in the last year," wrote Mills, "I had scarcely noticed that my drinking habits had changed perceptibly. I now realize, after several weeks of treatment by the doctors and soul-searching of my own, that I had developed a severe drinking problem, not as a daily drinker but as a periodic heavy drinker. I did not know that this pattern corresponds with what is known as alcoholism...
...modern philosopher had told me again and again that I was in the right place, and I still felt depressed even in acquiescence. But I had heard that I was in the wrong place, and my soul sang for joy, like a bird in spring...
...A.H.A., one out of every four adult black Americans has high blood pressure, compared with one out of seven adult whites. Some scientists theorize that blacks are genetically incapable of handling the large amounts of salt that are found in a diet rich in pork and highly seasoned soul food. Others suggest that the pressures of being black in America are enough to cause the disease. Indeed, a common joke among blacks is "If you're black and you ain't paranoid or suffering from hypertension, you don't know what's going...
...narrow, technical sense. But other criticism raised by the psychiatrists (out of motives of self-interest, since the play affects one's confidence in psychiatrists in nearly the same way as, say, Z affected one's confidence in the Greek judicial system) go deeper. Psychiatry isn't only a soul-crimping technique for the repression of man's purest, strongest experiences. Shaffer sets up the Apollonian and Dionysiac sides of man in bald opposition. He weighs the comparison by opposing a hygienic professional without strong sexual drives (whose chief pleasure is paging through coffee-table books about ancient Greece...
Incredible Soul. Rimsky-Korsakov was one of the master orchestrators of the post-romantic era. He revised Boris at the turn of the century in the conviction that while Mussorgsky's writing had undeniable boldness, originality and even beauty, it was also rough of harmony, incoherent of style and in general not the work of a professional. In truth, Mussorgsky, a civil service clerk, had little formal training but did possess, as Schippers puts it, "an incredible soul, obviously. It had to come out." Rimsky's rich, opulent revision swept the operatic world, with the great Russian basso...