Word: soule
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jefferson was slow to answer. He wore a bemused expression on his face and was not eager, this hot night, for argument. He finally said: "You're right. The country is bigger and richer and more powerful-not greater. The soul of our Revolution has been lost." He paused again, considering his words. "Do you sense the chasm that exists between that place [gesturing toward the White House] and the people who were here today on the Mall, the citizens of 50 states come to see and touch their history, our history? The White House has become a royal...
...black sophomores refused to have his head shaved, as every sophomore Bulldog in memory had. (It would take too long to grow back, he pleaded.) And no one was pleased when the ten blacks on the team, led by Walker, asked if they could live in a separate "Soul Cabin" at football camp. (This put Coach McFadden in the awkward position of having to, upon immediate arrival, assign living quarters, "This cabin for seniors, those two for sophomores and juniors, and that one in back...
...sophomore looked like a star, and the Soul Cabin became the social center for the whole team throughout the one week ordeal. An impassioned Walker later said in a speech, "We sweated together. We slept under the same roof. We know each other." Some strong bonds were forged during the week of conditioning in the Poconos and from those bonds came a successful season. When it was over, there were tears, speeches, exchanges of gifts, and pacts of lifelong friendship. The next fall, NP went undefeated again, and "The Best Damn Team" was largely forgotten...
...take the kids?" In order to do so, the corporation has sacrificed creative vitality, cultural relevance and its former, justifiable pretensions to genuine, if inevitably industrialized, artistry. Which is a way of saying that somewhere along the road to its present, seemingly invincible prosperity, it lost its soul...
...That soul, on the evidence of the early short cartoons-made before Disney or anyone else devoted any time to consumer analysis-was anarchic, occasionally cruel, broad and barnyard in its humor. If it did not comfort the afflicted (except by providing them with virtuoso entertainment), it certainly afflicted the comfortable. It was a direct spiritual descendant of the great silent screen comedies...