Word: soule
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact that, when pressure has built up for a long time and an outlet is at last afforded, there is likely to be an explosion. Under the intolerant Puritan regime of Oliver Cromwell, the theatres were kept closed for nearly two decades--"The grey Puritan is a sick man, soul and body sick," wrote D.H. Lawrence. With the accession in 1660 of Charles II, who liked the theatre, the lid blew off, and licentiousness swept high society. The Restoration aristocrats would have agreed with Havelock Ellis that sex is "the central problem of life"; for them the problem...
What's this? Cold nerve? Endurance? Retirement is supposed to be drifting, isn't it? Loafing and inviting the soul? That's not what Hills found, and his report has the leaden ring of truth. The trouble is, while the upper class, where it still exists, is born to leisure, and the lower class is in sporadic danger of having leisure thrust upon it, the poor old middleclass, middle-aged man is a creature of work. He is his work and is so acknowledged by those he meets at cocktail parties: "Ah, you're a fiction...
...Paperback Booksmith (37 a Brattle St.), open 24 hours a day, lives up to the sort of soul healing power its title implies. It has the best science fiction around, and a lot of hard-to-get books on the most far out of subjects. To top it all the staff won't bug you if you spend four hours in there one early morning making up your mind not to buy anything...
Heading the list is Los Angeles-based Motown Industries, one of three record companies in the top 100. Started in Detroit 14 years ago by Berry Gordy Jr., Motown last year parlayed its soul singers (Diana Ross, the Temptations) into sales of $40 million. Next is Chicago's Johnson Publishing Co., Inc. (Ebony, Jet, Black Stars), which, with sales of $23 million, is one of eight publishing firms on the list. The smallest firm is Terry Manufacturing Co. of Roanoke, Ala., which has sales of $ 1,000,000 from women's uniforms and sportswear. The list is dominated...
...more than technologists, farmers have polluted the earth-by impoverishing the soil, contaminating the water. Worse, they have polluted the soul. They first introduced the corrupting concept of proprietorship into society. They "degraded sexuality" by connecting it to "productivity." So much for the agrarian idyll...