Word: soule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...America's finest woman prose stylist," but whom Harrison finds "transparently ersatz," and "merely cheap." "All connections are equally meaningful and equally senseless," says Joan of Dark; her nihilism, says Harrison, amounts to amorality. Didion's not entitled to "fiddle while Watts burns," and her disconnection of the suffering soul from any political or spiritual meaning, sorely contrasts with Harrison's crusade to restore those vital, fading links...
...church bells, thousands swarmed to welcome him back. The Ecumenical Patriarchate supposed at first that Eirinaios himself had staged the kidnaping. Not so, insisted the captive bishop. He told TIME last week: "Only after I recovered from the initial shock and saw the sufferings of these people did my soul yield to them...
Caligula opens with the portentious pounding of a drum, as a Bible passage about gaining everything but losing one's soul (get it?) appears on the screen in blood red. We then see a cheery young Caligula frolicking in carnal bliss with his sister, Drusilla. But soon, with neither reason nor warning, ambition seizes Caligula. He thinks that his grandfather, the Emperor Tiberius, wants him dead, so he has Tiberius killed and assumes his reign. Caligula thinks he's a god; he says so at least half a dozen times in the long, tedious course of the film...
...demonstration and got detained by some suspicious police in Secaucus, N.J. They never got to Washington, but they had a lot of fun calling themselves the "Secaucus Seven." Now, ten years later, they commune again for a weekend of charades and basketball and nostalgia, some skinny-dipping, lovemaking and soul searching. They're turning 30, jogging toward the compromises of early middle age -Updikescent- and out of the corner of their minds they wonder how much fun that will...
...Marxism-by its promise of egalitarianism and social justice. The appeal is especially forceful in the Third World, where capitalism is usually implicated emotionally with colonialism and where some form of socialism seems the surest road to justice. But on the whole, those farthest away from the thwarting and soul-wrecking little details of the Workers' State are the ones most inclined to be eloquently sentimental about it, or at least to make excuses for it. Almost every university faculty in the West has members who call themselves Marxists; in contrast to a couple of decades...