Word: soule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...done, the Chinese had inherited the city only to find it a legacy they could not completely control. The greatest commercial center in Asia was certainly not proCommunist; but it was anti-Nationalist because the Nationalists had not the discipline to master Shanghai's half-Eastern, half-Western soul. The city had the energies of two worlds, and the controls of neither. Now world communism, the new imperialism, would have...
...dare to live, when the soul's life is gone...
Konni Zilliacus did not take so philosophic a view. Last week he announced that he planned to run again for his House of Commons seat as an Independent Laborite. Said he darkly: "The fight for the soul of the Labor Party, which is also the fight for peace, has now begun...
With the best of intentions, according to Miss Sayers, the churches have managed to portray "the typical Christian in the likeness of a crashing and rather ill-natured bore-and this in the Name of One who assuredly never bored a soul in those 33 years during which He passed through the world like a flame...
...like much genuinely first-rate fiction, it allows for a variety of interpretations because it reverberates with many possible meanings. But no reader is likely to doubt that it will soon find a place as a minor classic in the American short story, a ruthless fable about the human soul that might have come out of Hawthorne...