Word: soule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Oval Office without an appointment. Within a year of the Inauguration, however, his operational influence began to fade. Though an inveterate draftsman of organization charts, Meese was disorganized. Those he chose for staff positions were considered weak and ineffectual. But he was still Reagan's closest ideological soul mate, valued for his unswerving loyalty and his ability to reflect the President's political instincts...
...naked statistics don't really tell the story, but they're impressive nonetheless: two hours of lecture a day; two six hour labs and two hours of section a week, and an hourly first thing every Monday. For eight weeks, Orgo occupied my soul I got up I went to class. I went to lab. I studied I went to dinner and then I studied some more. A couple of times I even had dreams about chemistry...
...card." Until now, his concept of property has been a '65 Oldsmobile. "But he'll be fine, because he's a fighter, a doer. He's just realizing the responsibilities ahead, and he doesn't want to feel he has been purchased body and soul...
...retains the clockwork heart of the 1947 Robert Mitchum movie: a gangster hires an investigator to find the woman who has run away from him; when hunter and hunted meet and fall in love, the hood suffers a criminal loss of temper. But it has misplaced the suffering romantic soul of its model, which ex pressed itself through narration and dialogue that recollected tacky things past in tough, cynically charged metaphors and through images as shadowed as an ambiguous memory. It was all rather as if Philip Marlowe had decided to stake out his suspect disguised as Marcel Proust...
...never to use its power at the expense of individual humanity. How can one conduct prayers in a public institution without interfering with the sacrosanct relationship of a person with himself? People in a democracy hold dual citizenship; they are citizens of their country and citizens of their souls. When the state starts imposing on the soul, democracy is in trouble...