Word: soule
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Soul...
They used to be called race records. They were usually crude, gutsy blues recorded as they were being composed, a highly emotional outpouring of troubles that appealed to Negro listeners. Now, in increasing numbers, the soul singers are reaching beyond their original limited audience, and their records, rather more polished but still intensely expressive, regularly become bestsellers. Among the best...
Negro youths clambered onto the iron grilles shielding store fronts and, straining in unison, ripped them free. They sometimes spared stores whose windows bore the crayoned legend "Soul Brother," a sign of Negro ownership. In stores owned by "Whitey," clothing was stripped from mannequins, and the headless, pale pink forms soon dotted the length of Springfield Avenue, one of Newark's shopping streets, along with a fine, crunchy layer of window glass. Women pranced through supermarkets with shopping carts, picking and choosing with unwonted indifference to price tags. One young Negro mother was stopped by cops as she exited...
...much less face-conscious and more inner-directed. We talk about our soul, we hold out against the majority, we stand up as indi- viduals saying, "This I believe and I defy you all" and so on. This is in our tradition. It is a very different tradition. Well, this has implications again for our policy on how to treat the people in Peking...
...once again, thanks to the American Shakespeare Festival, we are able to witness the stunning story of Antigone, who, believing that the soul of an unburied body was condemned to restless wandering throughout eternity, defied the order of King Creon, her uncle, by scattering earth on the rotting corpse of her slain brother Polyneices, with the full knowledge that the penalty for so doing was death...