Word: soule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does Rockwell condone excluding the great jazz musicians of our age? Jazz is, after all, the country's most important contribution to music and possibly the most significant art form to develop in this century. For that matter, where are America's great rock and soul poineers? Not in this "full spectrum of contemporary American composition...
...reactions too. People who scorned that kind of political immolation thought Mondale had shown an impotence that could never be forgiven. Eugene McCarthy, Mondale's former colleague and a man who has also been accused of being a quitter, later expressed his own savage view: Mondale had the soul of a Vice President...
...lengthy journey begins with the agonies of death ("Volcanic lips give fire, wells bubble. Bone lies like rubble upon the wound"). Surviving this fiery purgation is the ka (diminished soul) of an Egyptian named Menenhetet II. After experiencing the mummification of his discarded body, this ghost meets the kindred spirit of his great-grandfather Menenhetet I. The old ghost agrees to guide his descendant out of the necropolis at Memphi, a task that begins with a lesson in the creation of the Egyptian deities. Toward the end of this recitation, the young shade's attention drifts into the eddy...
...that he reports to Cicero: "Against the Capitol I met a lion, who glared at me, and went surly by." The implication is that in every civilization, however lofty, a lion always roams the streets; the jungle never entirely disappears. What most men fear is a lion in the soul. Women, too, perhaps, but not in the matter of rape. That is male terrain, the masculine jungle. And no man can glimpse it, even at a distance, without fury and bewilderment at his monstrous capabilities. -By Roger Rosenblatt
Washington finally emerged and made a careful call for unity. "Those of you who have opposed this election--I assure you I understand your needs and desires," he said. "I want to reach out my hand in fellowship and friendship to every living soul in this city...