Word: soule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earth in Happy Days.'Man is maimed and buried alive in these props. One critic has called a Beckett hero a perverse Cartesian: I stink, therefore I am. Actually, the degradation and mutilation of the body are Beckett's image for the withering away of the soul...
...furious argument about God, Boswell pressed so hard that the wily Frenchman feigned a faint to gain a respite. But when Boswell left, they were friends and he was walking on air. "What variety my mind is capable of!" he wrote in his journal. "I have a noble soul...
...Japanese housewife used to be a timid, tittering soul who knelt obediently at her husband's feet and spoke only when spoken to. But the women have now organized, and they can be a formidable power. This became painfully clear to the government last week when Miss Tsuruko Haruno, vice president of the Housewives Association of Japan, glared through her bifocals and charged that the Japanese family was about to be taken to the cleaners...
...already gone through two concertmasters and eleven of the original twelve woodwind players. When one violinist came late to rehearsal, Stokowski ceremoniously pulled out his book and made a big circle around his name. Next day, a replacement was sitting in his chair. He can also be the very soul of charm. Says one musician: "He is like the morning fog. When it lifts, everything is wonderfully lucid and beautiful. When it falls again, he is absolutely inscrutable...
...hottest-selling record in the U.S. last week was one that didn't swing or sing. It has music, of a sort. But the heart and soul of Day of Decision is a spoken oration on American patriotism...