Word: soule
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...soul of the stage may be the grand tragedy or its modern cousin, the middle-class problem play, but the essence of Broadway is the musical. Spectacular song-and-dance numbers lure the tourists from Topeka and Tokyo and wave the American flag in London's West End. Every kind of straight play can be developed in the cozy environment of a regional theater, but only on Broadway can the big, brassy musical be consistently nourished with enough cash and applause. Throughout the past season, which many have judged among the worst in a decade or more, the prime barometer...
...challenge ahead for Reagan, though, will be greater than anything he has encountered before on the stage or in political office. He is not the same man physically or emotionally. And because the American presidency rests finally in his soul, the presidency will inexorably be changed. Though there has been more medical, physical and psychological speculation about Reagan in these past days than ever before, there is no way to chart the future. In hindsight it appears that John Kennedy's persistent back troubles sometimes plunged him into dark moods that were reflected in his grim assessments of Soviet power...
...article of Aug. 20, 1945, James Agee immediately saw that individual responsibility was at the heart of Hiroshima: "When the Bomb split open the universe and revealed the prospect of the infinitely extraordinary, it also revealed ... that each man is eternally and above all else responsible for his own soul." Responsibility for one's own soul inevitably involves others, since no one judges the quality of his soul in isolation. If what we saw in Hiroshima was ourselves, we saw everyone else at the same time. Everybody lives in Hiroshima...
...allow their priests a certain leeway while refusing to cross certain lines. "Flexibility keeps coming up" in Cardinals' statements, says Gibson. "Not compromise but flexibility." Finally, there are church positions that remain somewhat undefined, and the Cardinals' stance on such questions as how to apply the idea of the soul to biotechnological advances may help sway their colleagues...
...would drive along the highways of South Texas picking up dead animals. Once you've dry-heaved for the thousandth time in the back of a dump truck with dead dogs and raccoons, you do some soul searching about vocational choices that you will not be making later in life...