Word: soulfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LADY OF THE FLOWERS, by Jean Genet. Written in prison, this first novel by the author of The Blacks is part scatology, part pornography, and a monstrous, well-sustained literary diary of a man's single-minded pursuit of evil in search of his own soul...
...were to distribute poverty justly, we would all surely remain poor," he insisted. "It seemed to be more important to overcome poverty than to distribute it." U.S. General Lucius Clay backed him, and throughout a grim winter of rising prices and shortages, Erhard kept up Seelenmas-sagen (soul massages), in the form of radio speeches and newspaper articles. Over and over he predicted: "Prices will start to drop in the spring." Panic buying trailed off, production rose and prices did fall...
Betti's underpainting enriches his narrative line with spiritual significance. Just as the man who journeys to the end of the night finds day, so Cust in his single-minded pursuit of evil finds his soul, and in that soul a damning consciousness of his own sin. Just as the world, symbolized by the court, cannot cleanse itself, being innately corrupt, so Cust the sinner cannot save himself. He needs to be redeemed by innocent blood and forgiven through the gratuitous gift of love to the totally unworthy. Elena, the symbol of this grace, performs the dual function...
...late Italian Playwright Betti was obsessed by what he called "the bewildering incongruity that we see between our existence and what it ought to be according to the aspirations of our soul." Kafka was similarly obsessed, but he found the distance between God and Man unbridgeable, while Betti bridged it by daring to revert to orthodox Christian doctrine. Not a play to stir the passions or warm the heart but to disturb the mind and chill the soul, this exceptional off-Broadway production is an intellectual and spiritual jewel in the theater's cardboard crown...
...Adding Souls. Another Disciple worry is membership. The nation's fastest-growing churches are ones that emphasize their doctrinal individuality-including the conservative Churches of Christ (TIME, Feb. 15), which broke with the Disciples around 1900 over a number of ecclesiastical questions, such as whether the Bible authorized instrumental music in worship. But the ecumenical-minded Disciples have lost 50,000 members in the last decade, and outgoing President Dr. Robert W. Burns of Atlanta warned that the flames of a faith built on evangelism seemed to be dying into embers. "Our evangelism has lagged because many...