Word: soule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interior with a brilliant shaft of light falling through a window. In View of Delft, his only known landscape, they discovered Vermeer's use of pointillé-tiny dabs of pigment that look like crystals of light. In portraits, his delicate lighting seemed to illuminate the very soul of his subjects. The age of Manet was understandably dazzled...
Burning Sincerity. Whatever the theme or style, the essence of the blues is a quality of burning sincerity called "soul." "Soul is something that you feel within yourself and you gotta give to the people," explains Singer-Guitarist Magic Sam. "It's hardship, what you've been through. I love it even though it makes me sad, because that's what I am." Adds retired Harmonica Player Shaky Jake: "Blues are the true story, the truest music I ever heard in my life...
...Because "soul" expresses the special experiences of Negroes, the blues have remained distinctly their music, a proud but not intransigent symbol of their separateness. Lately, however, a sizable white audience has awakened to the power and beauty of the Chicago ghetto blues...
...point, the Bonn government is also disturbed-and though Lufthansa is independently operated, the government owns 75% of its shares. Last week one government bureaucrat accused Lufthansa of "stressing negative aspects of the German character." Said another: "They present the German as an automaton, a creature without a soul. We can't be happy about that...
...excursions into philosophy, all taken in Jean-Paul Sartre's second-class compartment, begin at the level of the college bull session and follow a descending route. "Coitus interruptus is evil," announces Mailer in the course of a Playboy magazine panel discussion on sex. Food has a soul, he writes; fresh food has more soul than canned food. Terminal cancer cases can be arrested by reading William Burroughs: "Bet money on that." The now-notorious Mailer sense of smell, which got such a bloodhound workout in his last novel, An American Dream, now concentrates on the bowel...