Word: soule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dreamy jaunt through the fields of fantasy, The Poor Soul meets Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Old King Cole, Beauty and the Beast, Rumpelstiltskin and other fabled characters...
Billy Graham's appearance as a main speaker before the National Council of Churches' triennial assembly in Miami last week threw into one arena the two divergent operational concepts of modern-day Christianity: Graham's concern for the individual soul and the council's stress on involvement with the world. To many, these approaches have seemed opposites; the mere fact of Gra ham's invitation and acceptance was a bit of an eyebrow raiser. But Graham neatly managed to synthesize his own modified views and the council's: he said that social action...
Wassily Kandinsky was one of the first modern artists to put abstraction into the visual vocabulary of 20th century painting. Yet roots of Kandinsky's modernism lie more in the soul than in any scientific mood. For him, folk art with its romance and spiritual energy was a vital source, just as it was for his contemporary Stravinsky, who made brightly violent music, such as The Firebird, out of traditional Russian folk tales, and the sculptor Brancusi, who derived his mythical Maiastra bird from a Rumanian fairy tale...
...jurist, he was the brightest legal light of the realm. As a politician, he rose to the highest office in the King's gift: Lord Chancellor. As a Christian, he stood fast to his principles in the greatest scandal of the century, choosing to save his soul though he lost his head, and for his martyrdom he is recorded in the calendar of saints...
Pettifogging is countered by perjury. In return for the attorney-generalship of Wales, a fair-weather friend (John Hurt) trumps up evidence that More is a traitor. "Why, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world," the doomed man murmurs with incredulous irony. "But for Wales...