Word: soul
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When the bad news came, O’Mary was with Dean, piling into a luxury bus named Aretha, after the soul singer who had once used it. As the political consultants and managers frantically tried to figure out what Dean should say to accept his caucus defeat, O’Mary was already on the next step, pacing back and forth with his cell phone...
...always talks in class about how ‘the mind is what the brain does’ and how the concept of the soul is being debunked by science,” she said...
...Gandhi family is adapting to the role played by the royal families of Europe as they, too, ceded power: bastions of tradition, patrician benefactors, guardians of a nation's soul. And of all the Gandhis, it is the reluctant leader Sonia who most personifies this. The sacrifice of leaving everything she knew?losing her brother-in-law, mother-in-law and husband, then accepting the life that killed them?has earned Sonia a respect and affection in her adopted country that resonate far beyond politics or nationality. Priyanka's Indian businessman husband Robert Vadra describes it simply as "unconditional love...
...continents of space--The Known World is a glorious, enthralling, tangled root ball of a book--but always returning to the story's tragic core. Slowly, terrifyingly, it dawns on us that although Henry has his free papers, he's the product of an evil world, and his soul will never be free. When it was published last summer, Jones' book seemed like a very mature first novel. With the benefit of eight months' reflection, we can say that The Known World is a masterpiece that deserves a place in the American literary canon...
Eric Clapton takes a ride into Mississippi delta country in his new release, revisiting the juncture of Highways 61 and 49—the crossroads where they say the king of all bluesmen, the legendary Robert Johnson, sold his soul to the devil for musical genius. Even the most bulletproof rock icon was once just another wide-eyed fanboy, and Clapton has made no secret of his lifelong devotion to Johnson, whose fingerprints have been indelibly burned into nearly every one of Clapton’s efforts. Me and Mr. Johnson marks the consummation of this...