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Word: soule (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...helpless-looking little man with a bald head, a deadpan, a huge nose resting firmly on a huge mustache. Louie has no fixed profession. Sometimes he is a barber (as was Hanan's father), sometimes a henpecked husband, a wistful bachelor, a timid burglar-but always a meek soul with an inferiority complex about women. Like his happily married creator, Louie suffers from a gnawing desire to snip feathers off women's hats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Little Guy | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

Concluded the committee: "On all sides we see the disintegration of loyalties . . . the revival of ancient prejudices, the increase of frustrations, the eclipse of hope. . . . Religion at its best has always been an integrating force, a spiritual tonic for a soul racked by fear and cringing in weakness. ... Its imperfections will not be lessened by an attitude of splendid isolation on the part of intellectuals, or of indifference on the part of those responsible for the education of youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Through the Wall of Ignorance | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...killing (TIME, May 7, 1945). "When a man faces death, he should have the dignity to meet it. Mussolini only trembled." He answered the charge that he and his fellow Partisans had refused confession and last rites to the Duce: "Was I to worry about Mussolini's soul after all I knew of his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: What Price Brutus? | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...till the party told him to become a Partisan. Today, at 37, he lives like a petty bourgeois in a one-room apartment, is interested in the film-producing business, loves Dante's Divine Comedy, especially Canto V ("Love led us down to death together: Cain awaits the soul of him who laid us dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: What Price Brutus? | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...road to religion marked FOR SAINTS ONLY? Is the plain, non-mystical citizen wasting his time working for the wife & kids-instead of sweating out the Dark Night of the Soul in holy poverty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Life of Work | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

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