Word: soule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than indulgent treatment. Congress passed out: additional millions under the G.I. Bill of Rights; $2.6 billion in terminal pay; $30 million to buy automobiles for amputees-after a group of amputees marched into the House gallery and let their metal braces fall to the floor with a soul-withering clank. No one denied the people's debt to the veterans but many wondered whether Congress' treatment of them was always judicious...
...verse. As a consequence of it, he argues, Locke saw no purpose in government except the protection of private property; and in consequence of that, the U.S. Government has failed to this day to understand the Mexican and other foreign governments. As another consequence, Protestant Christianity conceived the human soul differently from Catholic Christianity, in consequence of which Protestantism shared the poverty and confusion of "modern" cultures as Catholicism did not. As a further consequence, Western eggs and everything else have been priced on the hypothesis of the "free market" except when the hypothesis became unbearable...
Seven. This is the subjective or Melancholy Dane age. Seven develops a charming pensiveness, becomes a good listener and also a bit of a thinker. Too-constant use of the eraser symbolizes his selfcriticism. Seven needs a perceptive second-grade teacher who can help him through this soul-wrestling. He likes to be near her, to touch and talk...
Comrades of the Cucumber. The best and the worst of the famous Russian soul seems to come out on trains. The camaraderie is overwhelming; the crudity unbelievable. At every stop someone got off to fill my canteen with vodka, which was then redistributed to all hands. We collected an accordionist, a Hero of the Soviet Union, a discharged sailor and enough other people to make movement in our compartment almost impossible...
...Pure Ethic. The New Testament, says Dr. Scott, seems to "waver" between two basic ideas-that each man is an individual soul who must know and obey the will of God, and that each man must submerge his individuality in the great human brotherhood of which he forms a part. The Roman Catholic Church emphasized the social concept of Christianity; the Protestant Reformation reasserted the right of the individual to justify himself, in Paul's words, by faith alone. The truth, says Presbyterian Dr. Scott, is that Christ was never concerned with man-in-the-mass, but with showing...