Word: soule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...novels, featuring the nameless "I" character-or noncharacter. In one story, a decrepit figure, whose hat covers a pustule on top of his skull, is expelled from his boardinghouse and wanders until he comes to rest in a cab in a stable. In another story, a tortured soul gradually constructs his own coffin by hammering boards across the top of an abandoned rowboat...
...spiritually motivated crusaders striking at the values of straight society where it is most vulnerable: its lack of soul. In a sense, hippiedom is a transplanted Lost Horizon, a Shangri-La a go-go blending Asian resignation and American optimism in a world where no one grows...
...divergent conclusions. The so-called primitive mind, for one example, abhors change. It builds societies designed to repeal history: "What primitive man seeks above all is not truth but coherence; not the scientific distinction between true and false but a vision of the world that will satisfy his soul...
...witnesses are quite so exotic in their convictions. On the offchance that traditional Christian teaching provides the best answer, Richard C. Spurney, a Roman Catholic philosophy instructor at Mount San Antonio junior college near Los Angeles, plans to submit six volumes of theological research containing 50 proofs of the soul's existence from such thinkers as Augustine and Aquinas. Also interested in the bequest is the American Society for Psychical Research, Inc., whose president is Psychologist Gardner Murphy, a professor at Kansas' Menninger Foundation. Murphy, who believes that the soul, if it exists, is "probably not tangible," hopes...
Since the court hearing was announced, Judge Myers, an Episcopalian, has received more than 4,500 letters of advice suggesting proofs for the soul's existence. Most of them argue that the answer is to be found in the Bible, although a letter from India suggested: "Take a man who is about to die into a small room. All the doors, windows and ventilators should be thoroughly closed so that there is no place for the soul to get out. As soon as the man dies, his soul shall pierce or crack the window glass, thus giving proof...