Word: soule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...programs for nutrition and hunger. "We were poor when I was young, but the difference then was the Government didn't come around telling you you were poor," he says, harking back to the tradition of community help from sources other than the Government. "My mother, God rest her soul, was the kindest, God-loving person I have ever known. She was always finding some family or someone that needed help and that we could help, and yet we were poor . . . I think back on all the places along the line where somebody stepped out of line and helped...
...integral to his political success. "I believe in taking the big issues to the people," he says, paraphrasing Jefferson's belief that the "American people, if they know all the facts, will never make a mistake." It was a talent he learned in an earlier career. "The very soul of show business is communicating. There's an old rule in Hollywood that when your face is up there on the screen in a close-up, if you don't believe the line you're speaking, the audience will know it, and they won't believe it either." He still takes...
...opposite of freedom may be slavery or captivity, but the range of unfreedoms is wide and subtle and often alarmingly interior. Ignorance and illness are unfreedoms. Unfreedom, like freedom, is often subjective. Compulsion and fear are states of unfreedom. But objective enslavement can make one strong. The soul is a cagey survivor. Prisoners in states of unfreedom contrive their own covert liberty. The Soviet writer Andrei Sinyavski, sent to the labor camps for six years (1966 to 1971) for "manufacturing" anti-Soviet works, wrote, "I measure life by the number of times my head is shaven." He thought about Mozart...
...vice he could not kick even while actually on air reporting the dire effects of smoking. His early death only heightened his romantic aura. HBO's docudrama Murrow, which aired in January, all but shouted that when he died, TV journalism lost its morality, its courage and its soul...
...serpent Quetzalcoatl. It inflated his personal myth but obscured his achievement as a formal artist--by which, as the political characters in his murals fade into historical remoteness, he must be judged. For its public, this splendid show has set that process in motion, giving us back a great soul who was also, at least some of the time, a great painter as well...