Word: soule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...here where the papers are always three months old, every copy of TIME'S Pony Edition is read from cover to cover by 70% of the men. The ancient papers are read only for local news. Not a soul pays a bit of attention to their news or editorials. We know what they call news is mostly exaggeration, ballyhoo or propaganda written under the direction of the publisher. This is especially true in the political field where all events are presented in such a way as to discredit the President and the Administration. I am referring to perhaps...
...raid repair. A flower show in the capital featured half a million tulips. The Nazi Party stepped up weekend sports; Berliners had a choice of boating on the Wannsee, trotting races at Mariendorf, steeplechasing at Karlshorst, football, tennis and hockey matches. The radio urged: "The human body and soul need the stimulating reactions of the laughing muscles. He who cannot laugh lives in vain...
Dangling Man is a very carefully written book. As the publishers say, it is a sympathetic and understanding study of a young man struggling with his soul. It might be even more sympathetic if Author Bellow (who is not in the Army) ever seemed to suspect that, as an object of pity, his hero is a pharisaical stinker...
...fluttery little woman fond of long white gowns, Chaminade gave her recitals before banks of potted palms. She claimed that the soul of Beethoven once appeared outside her window in the form of a flame and burned briskly while she played the piano. In middle age she married a Marseilles music publisher named Carbonnel, who died five years later. A Philadelphia reviewer once mistakenly noted that she had never been married. "She is called Mme. Chaminade," he explained, "because she is wedded...
...Author Johnston nonetheless believes that U.S. capitalism is the world's best economic system and is enormously proud of being a successful U.S. businessman. He writes that the "Alger pattern ... is unmistakably" apparent in his own life. His penniless, work-filled boyhood taught him that competition is the soul of every game, that competitive effort involves an immense cooperative effort, that communities and individuals boom together. "I plead guilty of being a Kiwanian," he declares, "sharing all the sins of extrovert good fellowship, self-improvement and community spirit which the so-called intellectuals love to lampoon...