Word: soule
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...football team have a better chance. Individually the men have the experience. They have the physique. They have had the benefit of consistent well-planned coaching, and they play on the home grounds in the presence of the men they represent, who are with them heart and soul...
Even as the nomination was won, Gary Hart remarked that the campaign had "lost its direction, if not its soul." Throughout the meticulously planned primaries, McGovern had seemingly remained his own man, stubbornly glued on his own course and vindicated by the thumping first-ballot victory in Miami Beach. Yet trouble had begun as early as the Nebraska primary, Issues Director Ted Van Dyk says now, when McGovern's Democratic opponents "went after him on the triple-A issues" ?abortion, amnesty and acid. McGovern was soon trying to disengage himself. Even his defense programs were "clarified." Then...
...them at the convention. While younger people and minorities were welcomed, however, old-line regulars, and labor and ethnic groups were to a large extent shut out. Some argue that the election was already lost when faithful Democrats gazed at the convention on television, did not see a soul on the floor they recognized, and did not care for those they did see. The prospect now is for a new formula that avoids the stigma of the quota system. It would give the traditional factions some additional strength and at the same time retain some of the gains...
...Bach was a reader in the Church of Christ, Scientist, and Christian Science is one of the strongest religious strains in Jonathan. Mary Baker Eddy taught that evil, death and birth are illusory. Her philosophy, like Jonathan's, projected man as a timeless being. The "real" person is the soul that has always existed, not the one we mistakenly think was born...
...shriven of ritual mystery. Protestant sermons are soggy with sociology. Occultism, though thriving (TIME, June 19), comes on too much like fraternity rites staged by the devil's disciple. The old maxims ("This above all: To thine own self be true"; "I thank whatever gods may be/For my unconquerable soul," etc.) embarrass. Still, hardly anybody can live on irony and neostoicism for long. Even against what seems to be common sense, it is essential to believe in the possibilities of individual endeavor. There, suddenly, stands Jonathan Livingston Seagull, an Horatio Alger in feathers...