Word: soule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book (On Fencing - Putnam; $3) to set Americans straight about his sport, which he prefers to call an art. A model of fencing instruction, the book is also an entertaining swordsman's-eye-view of mankind. "The fencing strip," observes Mr. Nadi sternly, "is the mirror of the soul...
...Soul for Sale. Nadi's greatest disappointment is that the value of fencing as combat training has so far been largely overlooked by U.S. armed forces. Convinced that "nothing could be more useful to our flyers," he tried to enlist as a Navy physical instructor after Pearl Harbor, was incredulous when the Navy declined his offer. Cries Nadi: "I would sell my soul to be allowed to take charge of physical instruction for the aviators...
...Magdalen College. (Writes Mr. Lewis in the preface to THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS (Macmillan; $1.50): "I have no intention of ex plaining how. . . .") In a series of Chesterfieldian letters, written from the cozy depths of Hell, Screwtape advises his inexperienced nephew Wormwood on the best means of eternally damning the soul of his "patient." The "patient," a young Englishman who is never named, "backslides" into religion, is "rescued" by life among clever agnostics, regains his faith, does his duty in London's air raids, and is snatched into salvation by a bomb...
...that sustains me. . . ." Screw-tape's last letter reads with the raging crankiness of a Browning monologue: "You have let a soul slip through your fingers. . . . The more one thinks about it, the worse it becomes. He got through so easily! No gradual misgivings, no doctor's sentence, no nursing home, no operating theater, no false hopes of life; sheer, instantaneous liberation. One moment it seemed to be all our world; the scream of bombs, the fall of houses ... the heart cold with horrors, the brain reeling, the legs aching; next moment all this was gone, gone like...
...Away O soul...