Word: soulfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revival of faith in God. With this as the basis, the future peace treaties will insure a humane and liberal world, where man will live in good will with his neighbor, not merely because of some human document created and signed by men, but because in his heart and soul he will remember and practice in his everyday life the Ten Commandments which God gave Moses on Mount Sinai...
...since 1921 that Pandit (Great Scholar) Nehru had gone to jail. Only twice has he been out for more than a year at a time. Yet for ten years he was secretary general of the Congress party, three times its president and, next to the half-naked Mahatma (Great Soul) Gandhi, the most powerful figure in India's political life. As a sensitive liberal and a world statesman, Nehru has outgrown the shadow of his overage Messiah. But Gandhi, self-willed, self-made symbol of the Hindu peasant, has clamped Nehru's feet to India. It was Nehru...
...profession as the law of heredity. The principle of Swadeshi (home manufacture, i.e., spinning) is akin to the ancient Greek spirit of the hearth and Chinese ancestor worship. Satyagraha was coined by Gandhi from the words Saty (truth and love) and agraha (firmness) as the Hindu interpretation of soul force. Closely akin to this is Christ's admonition to "turn the other cheek...
...agnostic, Nehru has not accepted all these ancient beliefs; but, as an Indian, he has appreciated that soul force is a strange power. He himself has experienced the feeling of elation and victory over his adversary when being beaten down by an ironbound club. To Gandhi, the Hindu philosophy translated into terms of democracy means "complete identification with the poorest of mankind, longing to live no better than they." To Nehru, poverty is an evil to be uprooted and corrected, not a burden to lie down with...
...argue all night about whether Benny Goodman or PeeWee Russell is better, but the fact remains that PeeWee is already an immortal. Goodman has more polish and control, but PeeWee's playing has more soul and more guts. You'll. not find two more opposite characters in the band business today. Strange, because they are both from Chicago and sounded very similar in their early stages. Goodman has long since branched off, but PeeWee continues in the same strain...