Word: soule
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What do I think when I look at Apollo 17?" mused Debus. "It's beautiful. We have pioneered. We have worked hard. There is a terrific satisfaction in having been permitted to be part of it all. It was only after great soul searching that we recommended sending man to the moon back in 1961. It has been a happy life...
...continues: "Literature is the living memory of a nation. It preserves and kindles within itself the flame of a country's spent history, in a form that is safe from distortion and slander. In this way, literature, together with language, protects the soul of a nation. But woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation of 'freedom to publish'; it is the stopping of the heart of a nation, a laceration of its memory." When writers, as in Russia, are "condemned to create in silence...
...confiding that doctors never really know why their patients get well. The enormities of the age of anxiety have since produced an increasing conviction that measurable knowledge does not adequately account for, or much ease, the pain and confusion of modern life. The poet, like many another brilliant soul, has concluded that we are in God's hand or nowhere. Yet the blend of the clinical and the classical has never left his verse. It is particularly notable in this, the first book of poems issued since Auden returned to Oxford and England for good last May after...
...OCCUPATION quickly gathered support among the University community, with faculty as well as students--sometimes numbering as many as 1000--marching around the building in support of the occupiers. While the blacks inside the building read announcements and played soul music over a make-shift public address system set up in a second-floor window, supporters maintained a picket line around the building 24 hours a day during the occupation as a safeguard against a police bust. The commotion was so great that some freshmen in Yard dorms adjacent to Mass Hall temporarily moved to local hotels--at University expense...
Keneally has written six notable novels, usually dealing either with the small domestic crises of the soul or with spin-offs from historic incidents. It is a measure of his craft that he does not try to plug these themes into today's headlines for a cheap jolt of relevance. Jimmie's tale is played out against a background of incidental chatter and speculation about Australian federation, which in 1900 united the continent's six major colonies into a commonwealth. In the end the reader sees that this is not the background, but the whole point...