Word: soulfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TRULY enjoyable amateur theater can be refreshing to a jaded and world-weary soul. The right combination of funny lines and a troupe of willing hambones very often delight where pretensions to Polish and sophistication fail to entertain. A successful House show need be nothing more than unpretentious good fun and Winthrop House's production of two one-act plays comes very close to that elusive ideal...
...again bought an old synagogue, this one in the run-down Fillmore area of San Francisco's inner city. Using it as his headquarters, he opened an infirmary, a child-care center, a carpentry shop and kitchens for feeding the neighborhood poor. His services were dazzling, with soul and gospel music and dance groups. He attracted increasing numbers of black parishioners (the Peoples Temple was more than 80% black). He involved them in liberal causes, busing them to protest demonstrations, making them canvass for politicians he favored, and ordering them to undertake letter-writing blitzes...
...single belief common to most of these movements can be found, it is that at the center of a person's being is a spark of divinity, of spiritual soul, which is part of the spiritual energy of the whole cosmos and which a person may be able to tap through various means--meditative, introspective, or ritualistic. This spiritual energy can not be found in our materialistic world and cannot be discovered by scientific experiments or theorizing: it must be encountered through direct experience after considerable effort...
...Ogden Stewart wrote a burlesque of Emily Post called Perfect Behavior, starting with his definition: "The perfect gentleman is he who never unintentionally causes pain." Manners are always simultaneously something more and something less than they seem. They are the body language of a culture, the gesticulations of its soul: in the profound formality of the Japanese, for example, or the surly and almost pathological caution of the Russians, it is possible to divine both personal and national character. Manners can be quite serious; the survival of the tribe always depends upon a kind of cooperative forbearance, which...
...boss of South Africa's huge Transvaal province. Bowing to pressure from his party colleagues, Mulder reluctantly resigned from his euphemistically named Cabinet post, where he administered the apartheid laws that govern the lives of South Africa's 18.5 million blacks. Said Mulder: "I have no remorse in my soul about the entire matter, because everything I have done I did in the conviction that I was serving my country, South Africa, in the best...