Word: soule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skirt needs straightening? Whee! Cut it off.) and leering, horn-honking, pinching pursuit of squeaking blondes kept a generation of Americans in helpless laughter-and a thousand comedians trying to top him; following heart surgery; in Hollywood. Behind the idiot grin, Harpo (real name: Adolph) was a witty, gentle soul, married to one woman for life, and the doting father of four adopted children; he was also, of course, a brilliant musician, frequently playing his harp in serious concerts and always using it as a soothing counterpoint to his impish movie imagery...
...take the abduction kindly. So off to Cleveland last week trotted two of Australia's finest: Roy Emerson, the world's No. 1-ranked amateur, and Fred Stolle, ranked No. 2. "We'll win 4 to 1," predicted Aussie Captain Harry Hopman, as always the soul of confidence-and not without cause...
...Paolozzi's "new images, functionless machine-tools or sterile computers, derive not, like his previous work, from the debris of industrialism, but from the rational order of technology." They go beyond dada, surrealism or assemblage in accepting and celebrating the machine, yet dominating it by giving it a soul...
...corolla of gifted young novelists. Latest to adorn this company is Heather Ross Miller, 25, from North Carolina's Uwharrie River Country, where her first novel is laid. Heroine Anna Marie is obsessed by the memory of "Paw-Paw," her grandfather, "a stingy old man with a soul of tempered steel." When she is scarcely ten years old, Anna Marie stumbles upon "dirty old Paw-Paw" making love to his second wife. Later she watches from a hiding place when the half-crazed old man murders his wife and Anna Marie's young brother, then hangs himself...
...many Germans seem curiously ignorant about the opposition to Hitler; yet in the end it was that "other Germany," small as it was, that "put the German nation, so brilliantly efficient, so talented, and so lacking in the power of self-examination, on the road to finding its own soul...