Word: soulfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Word for Word. When the Anglicans began to work among the Eskimos in 1820, they found them more than ready for Christianity. The animist Eskimo religion is formidable with taboos, short on nourishment for the soul and solutions to community problems. Taboos often left an Eskimo physically as well as spiritually starved; for example, certain parts of an animal were forbidden to be eaten if a man had recently died in the community, other parts were forbidden if a woman had died, and frequently, when both a man and a woman had died, everyone went hungry...
...Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover and Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer. "They were the crystallizing books of my pre-Catholic formation," says Brother Antoninus. "They have a kind of terrible vitality that enabled me to strip the merely conventional away and expose my soul so that when the moment of faith actually came, I was free within myself to make the act of faith...
...Mistress (Japanese). A simple and moving restatement of a timeless truth: that even for a "fallen woman," the soul is free...
...peasant woman (Annie Rosar), who works as a cook in a wealthy Austrian family, saves all her pennies to educate her nephew (Kurt Meisel) for the priesthood. Actually the cook does not care a fig for the nephew. All she wants is a priest who will pray for her soul and make sure she gets to heaven...
...Mistress (Japanese). A simple and moving restatement of a timeless truth: that even for a "fallen woman," the soul is free...