Word: soule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Munich, he said: "In the 1930s we made our fate not by what we did but by what we failed to do. We propelled ourselves -and all mankind-toward tragedy, not by action but by inaction. The failure of free men was not of the sword but of the soul-and there must be no such failure in the 1960s...
Seelenkleister, or brooding about the state of one's soul, has always been a pastime of the Germans, but now they have more than usual cause to engage in it. For years, the economic miracle represented a kind of occupational therapy, a materialist escape; while it remains the dominant fact in Germany, more and more people no longer find it enough. Germans are uneasy about their place in the world, impatient with the obstacles that loom on all sides, resentful of the contradictions in which they are forced to live...
...André François-Poncet, twice (1931-38 and 1949-55) France's Ambassador to Germany: "A country cut in two is monstrous, and as long as Germany is not reunited, there will not be real peace in the world." Or, for that matter, in the German soul...
...transparent as the wing of a fly." Scared silly, he drinks himself into a stupor. But when his head clears, God is still on his back and dawn is breaking. "A tree of light burst over the skyline. He felt the light pouring through him, turning his spiderweb soul into a perfect arabesque of colors, a garden of trees and birds and beasts." In terror and wonder, he presents himself to his wife. She takes one look at his back and drives him out of the house. "Idolatry! Idolatry!" Broken and bewildered but blazoned in bliss, the redneck stands...
...guys, and everyone's motives are mixed. The lawyer, Virgilio, who helps Horacio outwit the Badarós, also seduces Horacio's pretty wife. And spade-bearded Sinhó Badaró, who has arranged the killing of many men, still agonizes over each decision-in fact, his soul searching destroys the efficiency of his best gunman, Negro Damião. As in U.S. westerns, the land is the real hero, breeding men as luxuriant, lavish and cruel as itself. Presumably spurred by the success of Amado's Gahriela: Clove and Cinnamon and Home Is the Sailor, Knopf...