Word: soule
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Doctor Faustus. Unlike most Houses, Leverett has its own theatre, and director Evangeline Morphos has made the most of its facilities, skillfully transforming the entire room into a three-dimensional world where the forces of evil clash colorfully with the forces of good for control of Dr. Faustus' soul. There's only one major problem with this production: the soul of this particular Faustus doesn't really seem worth all the trouble...
Sixty of those people gathered Friday night in Parlour B of the Freshman Union and sang "I've got peace like a river in my soul," clapping to the sound of three accompanying guitars, oblivious to the cynical pool and pinball players down the hall
...that black people have more rhythm, as is generally believed, it's that their rhythm is built on the pulse and the heartbeat. Black people are loose. They let their bodies flow naturally." Adds Shook: "Black dancers are temperamentally very close to the Russians. Blacks use the word soul just as the Russians use the word dusha." Exactly, adds Mitchell. "That's what Dance Theater of Harlem is: classical ballet with soul...
...Russian named Ytrasie, whose romanticism pushes her into rather appealing heroism, has black braids which "flew out like whips." Yet they are frightened of their own desires, and tend to suppress them. As a result, they remain unfulfilled or their bodies are reshaped by their lovers' ravishment, while "the soul splits apart, and tastes like salt." The women of her verse refrain from jeopardizing others only to be, Sagan hints, themselves destroyed...
...other hand, Pasqualini learns that form can serve a prisoner's ends, while obscruring the plain truth, just as easily. Although the government, or his jailers, have complete authority over his "body and soul," they are obliged to hear him out. For him, this entails careful ideological maneuvering. "Free speech is encouraged, especially if it remains within the accepted channels." In one case, ideological leverage gets him out of solitary. During the Great Leap Forward, Pasqualini roguishly tells another "schoolmate" that he should have received a mere day's sentence. Reported for mockery of the judicial system the warder casually...