Word: soule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most actors, inactivity is the most difficult part they will ever play. "It is hard on your soul," says Randy Danson, who understudies Kate Nelligan in Plenty. "You are either extremely bored or extremely terrified, or completely elated or completely crushed." Danson has been all four of those, and two days after the play opened last October, she had to step in when Nelligan had the flu. "For three performances I rode the crest of a tremendous wave," says Danson, "but then I was back in the Green Room doing crossword puzzles. It takes a lot of adjustment to handle...
...only result in greater bloodshed. Hitler is not a bad man..." He also addressed a letter to the British people as a whole, counseling them to "Let them [the Nazis] take possession of your beautiful island with your many beautiful buildings. You will give all these, but neither your soul, nor your mind...
...election exemplified the battle between moderates and leftists for Labor's ideological soul. Moderate Laborite Robert Mellish had held the seat for 36 years, but left-wingers seized control of the Bermondsey party machinery, and the disillusioned Mellish forced a new election by retiring. The local leadership then selected the boyish Tatchell, an Australian immigrant who quickly adopted a position supporting better housing and education, along with radical socialism and homosexual rights. He had first attracted attention when he called for "new, more militant forms of extraparliamentary opposition which challenge the government's right to rule...
Music is a form of spiritual carbon dating. If one came of age in 1938, then Artie Shaw's version of Begin the Beguine might be the signature he went by, the sound that would date his soul like the exact ring on a redwood. A few years earlier, it might have been Hoagy Carmichael doing Stardust...
Finally, last week's author wants the Core to give students "the spirit for intellectual inquiry into their human condition." A noble goal, but, as manipulators of the soul have--or should have--discovered over the centuries, the spirit of inquiry emerges from within, it is not imposed from without. The faculty provides guidance, hopefully in the very best way it can. What students make of it is up to them...