Word: soul
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Still, however absurd the thought of Harvard as anything but the leader of the pack, the results do prompt some soul-searching...
...whose job he sought. As Senate majority leader, Dole had been asked to join a high-level, bipartisan delegation assembled by Bill Clinton to attend the funeral of Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli Prime Minister assassinated only hours earlier. Dole had barely known Rabin but viewed him as a soul mate nonetheless--a "no-nonsense kind of guy," he told me as we flew toward Washington--someone "who knew how to get things done." Those words, expressing Dole's highest compliment, were the very ones he was already using to distinguish himself from his Republican rivals, but more important, from Clinton...
...night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul...
...That it's an evil, of course, and not even a necessary one--a hideous succubus sucking away at the American spirit. (The unmentioned exceptions being those parts that involve prisons and the Pentagon, i.e., the ever colorful and entertaining use of armed force.) So in some ways, the soul-numbing tedium of '96 was the inevitable product of the venerable practice of government bashing. If these fellows were competing over something useful and productive--like the opportunity to write a season of Seinfeld scripts or be the host of the Academy Awards--there might be some reason...
...became even more restrictive so as to separate most aspects of life from each other. Today, Kunstler says, "What zoning produces is suburban sprawl, which must be understood as the product of a particular set of instructions.... [This] model of the human habitat dictated by zoning is a formless, soul-less, centerless, demoralizing mess...