Word: soule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...once stuck in the '50s, she loves releasing the adolescent enthusiasm that has been stifled in her mid-life soul. Every mundane moment is suddenly precious: breakfast with her parents and kid sister, singing "My Country 'Tis of Thee" in homeroom, catching Dick Clark on the old American Bandstand ("That man never ages!"). She dotes on her angora sweaters and her Iron- Maidenform bras, her mom's Rice Krispies cookies and tremulous advice ("Peggy, you know what a penis is -- stay away from it!"). She enjoys vamping Michael the beatnik, sharing a joint in a moonlit meadow as he howls...
Cornerback Don Heberle and linebacker Scott Collins (who leads all Crimson defenders in tackles) represent the heart and soul of the Harvard defensive unit, though, and strong efforts from both players will be needed for the gridders' to maintain their unblemished league mark...
...Fanu, Eden Phillpotts, Algernon Blackwood. In the U.S., an alcoholic and sickly journalist led readers down dark corridors that still echo in American and European fiction. Edgar Allan Poe was, wrote D.H. Lawrence, "an adventurer into the vaults and cellars and horrible underground passages of the human soul." He told of disintegrating bodies (The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar), accusatory objects (The Purloined Letter) and doomed homes (The Fall of the House of Usher) -- all now standard props of horror. Once the genre was taken seriously, American writers as naturalistic as Jack London and as refined as Edith...
...black-haired youth with greenish skin . . . That shape am I, I felt, potentially." This was the image of monstrosity that is only a chromosome away. Henry added another kind of apparition. In The Turn of the Screw he presented a governess and a ghostly valet who vie for the soul of a living...
...that character no longer is related to destiny. If a community cares only for that sinister cliche the bottom line, then there is no community pressure on individuals to behave fairly and honorably. In a world of bottom lines, why should anyone -- say a child -- bother to improve a soul...