Word: soule
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Preservationists have long known that the best way to save architectural landmarks-great structures that catch the eye and stir the soul-is to find modern uses for them. Now the lesson is being increasingly applied to lowly warehouses, seedy hotels, abandoned stables and other cavernous buildings. These are the very structures that not long ago would have been judged blighted, then torn down and lost...
...Riyadh Mosque. At the appointed hour, the young prince was led, blindfolded, to the square. As he knelt with his hands tied behind his back, one of the sharia judges read him the court's verdict. Immediately thereafter, in keeping with the words of the Prophet Mohammed, "a soul for a soul," the prince was executed in the prescribed manner...
...quid pro quo: Isabella's virginity for her brother's life. She is appalled and rather loftily tells Claudio to be resigned to his death. She is not what she seems, for to a Christian no defiling of the body can remotely affect the integrity of the soul...
...great majority of canoeists are typically unexercised Americans who seek a maximum of relaxation with a minimum of risk. Though the hundreds of canoeing clubs in the U.S. schedule an increasing number of races, drifting trips and other mass events, the average weekend canoeist seems to be an independent soul who prefers to stay far from the paddling crowd. Says Dave Carleson, who manufactures, rents and sells canoes in Portland, Ore.: "Most people want to enjoy the sounds of the wilderness, or watch riverbank creatures, or explore a lily-pad-laden inlet, or hear the sound of water stirred...
...produce a brassy twang. But Emmylou Harris' emotional singing style owes more to melancholy Appalachian bluegrass than to western swing. Despite its range, her voice is most telling because of its feathery delicacy, an almost tentative dying fall capable of stirring deep emotions. "I would rock my soul in the bosom of Abraham," this evocative voice promises in her best song so far. "I would hold my life in his saving grace." As the melody begins to rise, she floats a light true soprano above the whining steel guitar: "I would walk all the way from Boulder to Birmingham...