Word: soule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...understanding of the laws [against drinking and drugs] is the principle that drugs that intoxicate the brain have an effect of not letting your behaviors interact with your soul," Diessner says. "They interrupt the dialectic between the soul and the body...
...nearly impossible to design convention centers that function efficiently yet satisfy the soul. They are workaday Gargantuas that tend to be overblown shows of engineering (the Moscone Center in San Francisco) or imposing fortresses (McCormick Place in Chicago). But New York City's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, designed by James Freed of I.M. Pei & Partners, is exceptional. The vast interior (1.7 million sq. ft.), with its weblike metal skeleton, resembles the glorious train sheds of the late 19th century and, of course, London's Crystal Palace...
...Hollywood in the 1940s, the last imperial decade of the movie industry, was a dream factory, a sausage machine, a gloriously successful trade conspiracy (till the feds made the studios sell their captive theater chains). It was, for wowsers who cared to moralize, a creepy metaphor of the American soul. Ignorance ruled. Bad taste feasted; genius writhed. Or so genius said. Oddly, though not many superior films were produced, quite a few good flicks got made...
...situation has raised pertinent questions about the role and performance of giant corporations. Why had once strong U.S. companies become so vulnerable to raiders and foreign competition? The atmosphere of soul-searching gave rise in 1986 to several of the hottest business buzzwords of the 1980s. One was "corpocracy," meaning the Big Business equivalent of government bureaucracy. The Reagan Administration used the term in contending that many of corporate America's problems were of its own making. Richard Darman, the Deputy Treasury Secretary, stirred the debate in November, when he blasted big < companies' tendency to be "bloated, risk averse, inefficient...
...nine more in the Carmelite cloister at Lisieux, France. She worked no eye-catching miracles, made no famous converts, succumbed to tuberculosis like many others of her time. Yet within 28 years of her death, Pope Pius XI had canonized Therese, and her artless autobiography, The Story of a Soul, had blossomed into one of the world's best-selling books...