Word: soule
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contributors -big lobbies, big business, big labor. Senator Edmund Muskie, who has no fortune of his own, will need at least $25 million to win the Democratic nomination and wage a respectable campaign for the presidency in 1972. Must a candidate with insufficient mortgageable property mortgage his soul? Did the U.S. really benefit because political parties spent $300 million on candidates in the 1968 elections...
Then there is Sister Morphine. Rarely has rock music invoked such an invitation to hell. An electric guitar quivers menacingly, like a poised cobra. Off in the distance somewhere, the piano groans a low, dark, mournful chord. Jagger, sounding like John Lennon baring his soul, speaks from a hospital bed of the mind: "Oh, can't you see I am fadin' fast/ And that this shot will be my last...
...damn and blast my soul!" the Pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown used to warn his grandson. "I will turn you straight out of my house if you go in for any kind of commercial life." But he added: "Beggar yourself rather than refuse assistance to anyone whose genius you think shows promise of being greater than your own." Ford Madox Hueffer, the old artist's grandson, was born into the Rossetti circle. After World War I he changed his Germanic last name to Ford. His achievements included the authorship of 81 books, as well as the more...
Humiliations. Jane never gets out of Louisiana. But she has begun a pilgrimage of the soul, at first so creepingly tentative that she seems to be motionless. She marries a broncobuster who is killed by a black stallion. An orphaned boy she has adopted grows up to be a schoolteacher. For his premature ideas about civil rights ("Don't run and do fight"), a hired gun shoots him down...
...warmth and rhythm fireplaces, for efficiency, curve the corners of the room, their openings are the most wonderful of parabolas, three pinon logs leaning in on each other, the tops burn, and they lean farther and farther until they touch, and are, ashes, they give warmth for the soul and body, and the smell of the land that rose through hands into the house around, it is a land of the mind and all of the infinites of wonder it invites, there is no question of a god, the answer in the subtleties of colors that are distinct in their...