Word: soule
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...document between stolid beige covers. You can profile a good portion of this nation by journeying patiently through its ranks of numbers. There is something final and real about it, and the sense here is that this one has captured a good piece of Jimmy Carter's quicksilver soul...
Both face and soul seem as brittle and sere as the last leaf of autumn, and when he greets Anna, who has been in Mos cow, at the St. Petersburg railroad station, his only comment is: "It's good to have you home again. It's quite irksome without you." Vronsky, who has been on the train with Anna, is the opposite...
Bernard Shaw put on a one-man show from the moment he cut his teeth on words. His bloodstream was ink, but, body and soul, he was mind...
...like paranoia. Kafka fights for sleep: "Enemies everywhere ... Two hundred Prague schoolchildren have been quartered here. A hellish noise, a scourge of humanity." Not quite whining, he painfully records the rise and fall of his temperature, the coughs, the catarrhs, the betrayals in his body, the bats in his soul. "The phantoms of the night," he says, "have tracked me down." Earlier: "The physical illness is only an overflow of the spiritual illness." Kafka is both physically and metaphysically in touch with death, as if some thin, tight wire were strung from here to there, and made lovely, disturbing sounds...
...computes the possibilities and probabilities that govern the chaotic life span of a football game. His much-remarked-upon stoic sideline demeanor (Don Rickles: "There's 70,000 people going bananas and there's Tom Landry trying to keep his hat on straight") is a reflection of his calculating soul. Explains Wide Receiver Golden Richards: "He is not aware of the moment because he is thinking two plays ahead of the rest...