Word: soule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was one cheerful note. Russia's new regime announced that for the first time in 13 months of grain rationing, everyone would be issued 41 extra Ibs. of flour for the cabbage pies that seem vital to the Russian soul...
...Democrats hold a 1,500,000-vote edge. But Murphy built up an early lead in populous Los Ange'es County, and Pierre's upstate strength proved too little too late. A onetime promoter of right-win'? causes, Campaigner Murphy sud- den y became the soul of moderation- around moderates-yet kept the Goldwaterites happy. Then when Pierre came out against a proposed amendment which, in effect, would repeal most state and local anti-discrimination housing laws, Murphy kept his lip buttoned. The proposition won. Then there was the carpetbag issue, and a TV debate that only...
...which makes trees natural-enough symbols of god-granted fertility in a hot, dusty country. But sculptors did not copy trees, even when they meant to depict them. Instead, the artists pursued a metaphysic that showed dryads called yakshis (see opposite page) embracing trees in a union of the soul and the divine. Bulbous breasts, swelling hips and crescent thighs are drawn more from the idea of fertility than from womanly shapeliness. If the sculptors made their female goddesses hyperana-tomic bombs, they were emphasizing perfection in divine terms...
...just opened in Los Angeles. As the world's best science fiction writer, author of The Martian Chronicles and Hollywood's It Came From Outer Space, Bradbury has come to think that the world has actually entered the machine-dominated sci-fi era and that the human soul is already deep in an electronic coma. Hence his plays, though they are set in the future, are actually hyperbolic allegories of the present...
Despite the change, Keating has been unable to eliminate the image of the past. He is not the magnetic, crowd-drawing candidate that Bobby Kennedy is. Keating can walk from Madison Square Garden onto Seventh Avenue without a soul stopping him to shake his hand or ask for his autograph. He can go to a state Baptist convention in the Bronx to find that scarcely 100 people have showed up to hear him in a hall that would seat four or five times that many...