Word: soule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...associating with" a German soldier whom she professed to love very much. Now repentant, and suddenly mindful of the consequences, she told the King her prayer for salvation: "Dear God, suffer me not to be shaved. If you cannot prevent men from inflicting this shearing upon me, prevent my soul from being clipped." She hoped for royal understanding of youthful folly: "Dear King Haakon, you yourself have probably once been young and foolish, and surely you can understand that one can fall in love even with a German. . . . Help me, dear Haakon...
...wretched included not only war's fugitives, the millions of displaced persons drifting in hunger, cold and anxiety over the hard face of the world; and those others, allies and enemies, who had been shattered in life and soul by defeat in war -and some by victory. They also included the wretched who by reason of man's nature and destiny are always among us. The hollow eyes of-the dead, who cannot speak, asked a question: What have you done? The beseeching eyes of the wretched, who cannot be heard, asked a question: What will...
...Indian, in full regalia, selling snake oil in the shadow of "the great monument to chewing-gum lit up by floodlights." On a wall was chalked, in letters ten feet high: GOOD NEWS! GOD IS LOVE! In Milwaukee and St. Louis (where "the true morbidity of the American soul finds its outlet"), the houses "seemed to have been decorated with rust, blood, tears, sweat, bile, rheum and elephant dung." Pittsburgh was "the crucible where all values are reduced to slag." Detroit "can do in a week for the white man what the South couldn't do in 100 years...
...superior to ordinary human misery, are the people who resort to the aids of illusion, exaltation, fanaticism, to conceal the harshness of destiny from their own eyes. The man who does not wear the armor of the lie cannot experience force without being touched by it to the very soul. Grace can prevent this touch from corrupting him, but it cannot spare him the wound. Having forgotten it too well, Christian tradition can only rarely recover that simplicity that renders so poignant every sentence in the story of the Passion...
...Manatee, a tale of love and whaling-men ("Violent . . . corrosive. . . . Jabez Folger['s] soul was possessed by an evil demon. . . ."), was the year's freak success. Nancy Bruff, wife of a Wall Street broker, hired crack Press Agent Russell Birdwell to put over her first novel. With a nude heroine in the form of a ship's figurehead enlivening its cover (see cut), and pretty Author Bruff. décolletée, enlivening its advertising. The Manatee soared high on best-seller lists...