Word: soule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...national character. Demonstrations, legislation, burnings, beatings, jailings--it seemed to be everywhere, tearing at the fabric of American society. It was Harlem, then Rochester. Its flesh was the flesh of Jimmie Lee Jackson. Lemuel A. Penn. Freddie Lee Thomas, James Reeb and other fallen civil rights workers. Its soul was the soul of the Mt. Olive Baptist Church in Terrell County. Georgia, one of many Negro churches burned or bombed to the ground. Its mentality was that of sheriff James Clark and other faceless, mindless segregationist law enforcers singlehandedly determined to "keep nigger in his place." And its heart...
...destiny cannot be accomplished on one election day. Nor can greatness for Israel ever be merely a matter of territory. One of the many visions of Israel is the idea, so important in the long centuries of exile, that it is more than anything else a geography of the soul, where the horizon is limitless. Despite its current troubles, Israel certainly has the ability - if only it can summon the will - to make that moral horizon, the Jewish people's timeless strength, the ruling priority once again...
...underscore this point, Grass gives the best speech in the novel to the rascally Gelnhausen. The discredited young man takes his leave, boldly promising the group that some day he will write a book: "But let no one expect mincing pastorals, conventional obituaries, complicated figure poems, sensitive soul-blubber, or well-behaved rhymes for church congregations. No, he would let every foul smell out of the bag; a chronicler, he would bring back the long war as a word-butchery, let loose gruesome laughter, and give the language license to be what it is: crude and softspoken, whole and stricken...
...teenagers for a series of porno video tapes. Predictably, their leader, a villain named Dirty Bob, manages to slip through some elaborate defenses and tracks McGee to his opulent houseboat, the Busted Flush. The result is one of MacDonald's King Kong vs. Godzilla confrontations that deliver a soul-satisfying amalgam of mayhem and justice...
After long soul searching the History Department voted a revision of sophomore tutorial that embraced two basic changes: a) the reduction from six to four topics and b) the creation of a new list of topics that are more focused and manageable than the old. To compensate for the removal of a required tutorial unit on a non-western subject, the Department added the requirement of a half course in non-western history (African, Asian, Lajin American, or Near Eastern). In addition, tutors are given the freedom to substitute either an area of their own choosing...