Word: soule
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hours of agonizing soul-searching lie behind each of the conclusions these four frustrated females have reached. Every move is preceded by an involved discussion of personal motiviations, as though each woman acts in a vacuum, untouched by the outside world. The rationale is always clear; when Nikki decides to embark on her first affair after leaving her husband and moving to the city alone, she thinks to herself, even as she is led to the bedroom, "Obviously there was nothing to do now but go through with it. It was what she wanted, she might as well admit...
...gulf between the two. That gulf may be bridged by God's grace, but even then the mystic cannot be God. Fusion is heresy. Lacking God's grace, the Christian mystic must wait for it in an anguish known as accidia or "the dark night of the soul." But even when grace is given, as Bharati reads the situation, the Christian mystic must dissemble his experience through a series of tricky theological mirrors. He is a sacred maverick who goes straight to the boss over the heads of middle management, and clerical bureaucrats are usually looking to clip...
...management is now in charge, Board Chairman Robert Haack said only that he was "saddened" by the revelations in The Hague. That response seemed remarkably understated, for as the Dutch braced themselves for a televised parliamentary debate this week on the Bernhard report, they faced a bout of national soul searching as convulsive as that produced in the U.S. by the Watergate revelations...
...Chirac's place, the President put a much more genial soul. Formerly Minister of Foreign Trade and for five years Vice President of the European Economic Commission, Barre was notable in the world of Gaullist grandeur for living in a small, book-lined apartment, driving an old Citroën and carrying his own luggage. A portly ex-professor, Barre is highly regarded in academic circles for his textbook entitled Economic Politique. Giscard called him "the best economist in France and therefore the best man to fight the inflation." Barre is expected to initiate spartan economic measures, like higher...
...parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter of fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful ..." Arnold Toynbee, in his monumental A Study of History, charted Rome and America through similar cycles of triumph, disintegration and collapse; like the empire of Augustus and Tiberius, imperial America could end in "a schism in the soul...