Word: soul
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that Sharp is out of school, much of her self analysis takes place at an island in Casco Bay, Maine, where she has spent her vacations since childhood and where her family still gathers, according to her sister. Their time on this island allows them to explore "soul searching issues," Bardel says...
Amidst the post-convention soul-searching, Newsweek printed an examination of campus activism titled, "Campus Rebels: Who, Why, What." To some, student activists like SDS leader Mark Rudd symbolized the spirit of necessary change; to others, Abbie Hoffman's yippies and other activists were dangerous radicals...
...these incidents suggest, Cornel West is one complex dude: brilliant scholar, political activist, committed Christian and soul brother down to the bone. At 40 he has become one of the most insightful and passionate analysts of America's racial dilemma to emerge in recent years, the architect of a post-civil rights philosophy of black liberation that is beginning to be heard across the country. "I think he is one of our most important critical thinkers," says James H. Cone, West's former colleague at New York's Union Theological Seminary. "He has almost singlehandedly helped us see the importance...
...ethical dimensions of Marxism who also possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of the latest releases from Arrested Development and Janet Jackson. He turned down a coveted post at Harvard in part because Boston radio stations don't play enough black music, which he calls "an important restorative of my soul." He was kicked out of elementary school in Sacramento, California, for slugging a teacher who asked him to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, which West refused to do as a protest against segregation. But he went on to graduate magna cum laude from Harvard in only three years, while simultaneously working...
Lately, much of Hillary's thinking has bubbled out of her in the reflective grief that followed the death of her father in April. America, she said, suffers from a "sleeping sickness of the soul," a "sense that somehow economic growth and prosperity, political democracy and freedom are not enough -- that we lack, at some core level, meaning in our individual lives and meaning collectively, that sense that our lives are part of some greater effort...