Word: soule
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...solidarity expressed in a brief description of a family sturgeon hunt on Lake Erie. And some 25 years later there is that final highway scene in which the Siamese twins, Leo and Teddy, hoist dripping thumbs in the hope that some sympathetic motorist will help them move bodies and soul out of that upper New York State region where they have overstayed their childhoods...
...Imagination" and "soul" are words that occur again and again in these essays. They are still alive, if not always well, in the Third World, Paz believes, and his primary concern is to save them. In his quest for allies he ranges far and wide. He examines fellow Latin American artists like Pablo Neruda (whom he calls "a poetic continent") and the film maker Luis Bunuel (whom he compares to Goya). He looks to Marshall McLuhan, then looks away from him -as a "prophet," alas, only of Madison Avenue...
...equally important. If we had no building there would be no place to lay out typewriter, and if we had no typewriter there would be no need for the office building. So we surround ourselves with expensive bricklaying tools or machinery with which to transpose our thoughts into solid, soul-satisfying, black-on-white print and go to it. To our dismay, we find that our initial endeavors are not what we hoped them to be. Our bricks are laid slightly askew, or our words do not seem to express just what we had intended them to portray...
...soon as the last murmurs of the festival fade away. The people who made the ceremonies possible--Andrew P. Corty '74, the hundredth anniversary czar Pat Sorrento, the shop foreman whose patience with dilatory copy makes Job seem a piker; Miss Eunice Ficket, the Business Board's conscience, soul and spirit, who has kept the details running; and those whose names have been forgotten--all will pick up the pattern of their lives after they recover from the partying. They have done well...
...continuity and broadness in cultural trends. I wouldn't call all of this literature new, but innovative. I'm aware of the changes, through my own children, and teaching I sense changes through what I see and read, and through personal contact. I sense a quieting mood, more reflective soul-searching. Related to this are religious activities, whether based on Zen or Jesus Christ. Young people in college are still up against the problem of what to do once they get out into the real world, and how to do it. They're thinking about how to conduct their lives...