Word: soule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miss Mac finally took the job, after much soul-searching, she explained to a graduating class at Smith one summer...
Standing before his portrait, Dorian said he believed he would sell his soul if only the portrait might take on the penalties of his coming age and experience of evil, and he himself remain untouched...
...wartime months, Government officials of all ranks and stations have almost always discovered alarming symptoms: jitteriness after Pearl Harbor, overconfidence after the drive across France, a lamentable tendency to spend money on whiskey instead of on war bonds. With a mixture of guilt and frustration peculiar to the civilian soul in wartime, the nation was willing to admit that its patriotic conscience was not completely clear. But last week-while dutifully opening its mouth for the latest dose of official criticism-the vast patient could not stifle a groan of protest...
...which throws most light on Joyce's artistic origins deals with epiphanies. "By an epiphany [Stephen] meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or in a memorable phase of the mind itself. . . ." When one perceives the epiphany of an object, "its soul, its whatness leaps out to [one] from the vestment of its appearance . . . [becoming] that thing which it is. . . ." Stephen felt that it is the artist's duty to record epiphanies...
Album of Songs and Spirituals (Marian Anderson, contralto; Victor; 8 sides). A collection of light-weight items including Massenet's Elégie, Comin' Thro' the Rye and My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord, sung with Contralto Anderson's characteristic sincerity and velvety voice. Recording: excellent...