Word: soule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public comment from Arab leaders, most of whom will meet at a summit this week in the Moroccan city of Fez. The Arabs, who have formally designated the P.L.O. as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, can hardly endorse Reagan's Jordanian option without much painful soul searching...
...will. But it was never supposed to work out so bluntly. U.S. prisons were to be the ultimate social experiment, where lapidaries of the soul would smooth and polish criminals. Under what conditions? Inside locked catacombs, filled to overflowing with inmates wrenched from their families for years, all overseen by men with searchlights and rifles. The contradiction was ignored for 200 years, partly out of earnestness and hope, but eventually because of a squeamish hypocrisy, a refusal to admit that imprisonment is any society's darkest chore...
...Serious modern fiction has only one subject: the difficulty of writing serious modern fiction." The joke is on everyone except Fowles. Mantissa is clearly an example of serious modern fiction, with itself as its subject, and not a trace of difficulty is visible anywhere in its construction. A susceptible soul might be led to believe that the Muses are amusing. Perhaps Erato lives...
...usually thinks of sexual obsession as an undetected virus of the soul, a bug caught some time in the formative years but remaining dormant until some temporary weakness of the mind or spirit permits it to break loose. Surely such a classic pathology lies behind the unexpected passion that afflicts the otherwise kindly and harmless Don Alejandro in a wise and compassionate Spanish film called The Nest. The strength of Eric Rohmer's equally excellent Le Beau Manage is that it shows how rationalism, which is supposed to immunize us against our more maddened desires, can, when indulged...
...group of Long Island, N.Y., suburbs. The board of the Island Trees Union Free School District, based in Levittown, voted 6 to 1 to return to school libraries the nine books it banned in 1975. The removal of the books, which included Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver, sparked national controversy and a legal challenge that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The court ruled in June that the ban might violate First Amendment rights, and ordered a trial to determine the reasons for removing the books. The board decided...