Word: soule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says Hawkins with pride. "I was always a rich musician.") As the first jazzman of any real talent to play the tenor sax, Hawkins quickly built a reputation and an ardent following. He added to both in 1939 when he and his own nine-piece band cut Body And Soul, one of the most famous jazz disks ever recorded. Hawkins stayed as active in the bopping '40s as he had been in the swinging '30s, which would seem to lend weight to his theory that "there has been no evolution in jazz; it's the same...
...German hausfrau. There she stands in front of her beloved stove. Her mind untarnished by thoughts that do not concern the care of her family or the future of her soul, she is cheerfully dedicated to producing heartier dinners, cleaner floors, and more babies. From a life tightly bound by Kinder, Kirche and Küche, she gazes fondly up at her worldly husband...
Their apologies only masked a darker, more important failure-the cloying, pervasive inability to understand her-or any other complicated soul-the lie of grabbing belated responsibility where none had ever existed. Marilyn was never more than Hollywood's plaything, when she might have been its lesson and its guide. What things she had to say were never heard because her voice was a dog whistle in a town accustomed to brass bands. Her misery was less the price of living up to an image too big for her than living down the reflections of her own abysmal past...
Ultimately, lay hopes for the future rest on the Vatican Council, which has a rare opportunity to promulgate reforms that would give the layman a more vital role in his church. What the laity want, Callahan concludes, is for the clergy to do some soul-searching and, in the context of the Council, to think seriously about how the layman could be used in the service of God. "To even face the problems and needs, much less to find solutions to them, will require much boldness. But it is a boldness not impossible for the Church...
Antonius Block, a disillusioned knight, returns from the Crusades with his cynical squire just as the bubonic plague is devastating Scandinavia. When Death suddenly appears to claim him, Block proposes they play a game of chess to decide the fate of his soul. He is thus able to forstall his doom, so that he and the squire can wander through the ravaged countryside and closer to home as the game progresses. Along the way they encounter Medieval life in all its variety--from a young girl destined for the stake for witchcraft, to a family of simple traveling actors, significantly...