Word: soule
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Government Department announced last week that neither the substance nor the soul of presidential adviser Henry A. Kissinger '50, will continue to inhabit Harvard formally...
Last month's peace settlement represents a victory for the violent aspect of their struggle, and their journey has now been shifted to the terrain of politics. But, unlike Americans who are presently engaged in soul-searching over their government's criminal actions, the Vietnamese are not troubled by such inner qualms. They may have second thoughts about aspects of military strategy, but they are not plagued by retrospective doubts about their initial decision to embark on an inevitably violent quest...
...needy, for example. They were thought of as diakoni (servants) of the people. The first martyr, St. Stephen, was one of the original deacons. By the 3rd century deacons were an ecclesiastical force to be reckoned with; one text of the time called them "the ears, mouth, heart and soul of the bishop" because of their closeness to the laity. But eventually, blurred distinctions (and a growing rivalry) between priests and deacons sent the diaconate into decline. In the Middle Ages the office was only a preparatory stage on the road to the priesthood; even now, in seminaries, it remains...
...arrives, because the church now emphasizes that the recipient should have a positive faith in the sacrament's grace. Says liturgical expert Father Secondo Mazzarello: "The aim now is to comfort the sick person. Pain and sickness are seen as the problems of the entire man, body and soul together. The new rite gets away from the Platonic concept, which for centuries split man into body and soul...
...moment probably came eight years ago, when Hoffa was convicted in federal court of jury tampering (there was subsequent conviction for fraud). Sheridan wants the nation to remember the judge's pronouncement at that time: Hoffa, the court declared, was guilty of "having tampered, really, with the very soul of the nation." Yet The Fall and Rise of Jimmy Hoffa is not at all a polemic. Rather it is a bulging catalogue of fact and insight that is altogether persuasive...