Word: soule
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Catholic theology does not require that life be preserved indefinitely by artificial and extraordinary means (see box, page 58). In early September, Quinlan testified, he gave up. "In my own mind, I had already resolved this spiritually through my prayers, and I had placed Karen's body and soul into the gentle, loving hands of the Lord...It was resolved that we would turn the machine...
...FREEDOM IS TO man as water is to fish," declares one of the characters in Bertolt Brecht's The Tutor. In the play, freedom is metaphorically equal to sexual license, so when the lecherous tutor castrates himself, Brecht's message is clear; this misguided soul, in his anxiousness to retain his livelihood, has performed an unnatural act, just like the German intellectuals who kowtowed to Hitler. Lest we construe Brecht's meaning too narrowly, however, he reminds us, in a line emblazoned on the set, that his aim is "to illumine all our sorry state, not only that of Germany...
Springsteen's songs are full of echoes-of Sam Cooke and Elvis Presley, of Chuck Berry, Roy Orbison and Buddy Holly. You can also hear Bob Dylan, Van Morrison and the Band weaving among Springsteen's elaborate fantasias. The music is a synthesis, some Latin and soul, and some good jazz riffs too. The tunes are full of precipitate breaks and shifting harmonies, the lyrics often abstract, bizarre, wholly personal...
...naked fakir" is a saint to his followers. "How can you say one thing last week," an associate asks him, "and something quite different this week?" Replies Gandhi: "Ah, because I have learned something since last week." The Mahatma continues to learn; he becomes at last India's soul and conscience. The most moving pages of Freedom at Midnight show him doing what battalions of soldiers could not: preventing by his frail presence the slaughter of Moslems and Hindus in Calcutta...
...Fear Eats the Soul, with a D.W. Griffith short, Sunday...