Word: soule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them. On the airport tarmac sat 100 tribal chiefs surrounded by flunkies who held giant velvet umbrellas over them. Each chief was accompanied by a "linguist" (chiefs never speak directly to anyone save the linguists, who pass on the message) and by a small boy, who functions as the soul of the chief. (In the past, the boys were killed when the chief died...
Politics is a rough-and-ready game. A strong stand against appeasement and for a tough foreign policy wins votes. Together with the military the hard-line politicians constitute a formidable pressure group. And Rockefeller's blithe rejection both of painstaking technical evaluation and agonizing soul-searching places him in the vanguard of this group...
...Dealing with an issue as explosive as Cuba becomes a soul-searching experience," Raymont explained at a panel discussion sponsored by the Latin American Association and the International Relations Council...
...ringing with packaged Truth. In earlier adaptations for stage and film, Greene's novel became little more than a frenzied search for a bottle of sacramental wine. But Adapter Dale Wasserman succeeded in dramatizing the infinitely more significant frenzy of a man in search of his own soul...
Poets, like pumps, sometimes need priming. Schiller kept a drawer full of rotten apples, and sniffed at them whenever he required inspiration. When Shelley decided to invite his soul he took off all his clothes and wandered about the house, oblivious to the shrieks of such proper English ladies as happened to be taking tea with Mrs. Shelley. Pulitzer Prize Poet Robert Lowell (Lord Weary's Castle) likes to rouse his sleeping powers by flirting with other men's muses-he writes what he calls "imitations" of poems in other languages...