Word: soule
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Standing on the Hollis South steps--the only soul in the Yard at the time--was a creature with a boyish face and short-cropped hair, clad in a crimson jersey with the Harvard insignia on it, baggy tan pants, white socks and tattered grey shoes...
...they did, they found themselves in a kind of descriptional twilight zone. Many rejected the pat definitions applied to them by admissions offices and sociologists, but few actually articulated the essence of their own identity. Slowly and often painfully they began to explore the meaning of their deep and soul-felt murmurings, and the first utterances took the form of some very difficult questions. "What am I doing in a white man's school, learning the very white man's rules that have victimized my people for almost two centuries?" "Am I copping out?" "Why must I divorce myself from...
Berman lampoons the growth of big, expensive hospitals-"Blue Cross Hiltons"-where you go "if you are deathly ill and want your body monitored by everything but a kind soul and a gentle hand." He is merciless about medical greed: "Any M.D. who has to worry about his tax bracket after only six months in practice is a folk hero to his peers." Moreover, he insists, even socialized medicine could not bring back the house call, end unnecessary tonsillectomies or make $5,000 operations a thing of the past. For his resourceful fellow physicians would "never allow the manner...
...deer. He talks of a blustering poet, "all red and arrogant and full of spondees." He spins a long unlikelihood to illustrate a proverb made up on the spot: "The Devil is most likely to strike when you have your trousers down." Oops! Bad taste? Upon my soul...
...Soul! "I should say that my soul was about the size of Spain, though in a better spiritual condition ..." Hey, Mistress Quickly! Another round for Robert Nye and his fat friend...