Word: soulfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little bit louder than the cheers for Proposition 13 and the death penalty (cheering for the death penalty is, I decided, a uniquely American political pastime) and abortion funding cut-offs. Maybe--but it didn't matter that night, as I headed across the street, passing a happy soul weaving under the influence of dollar-ninety Scotch. A soft breeze carried with it a few more strains of the B.C. fight song, but I decided right then that I didn't want to learn the words...
...they were doing just before the papal conclave. Senator Edward Kennedy upon his return from Moscow discussed with House Speaker Tip O'Neill the Yankees' four-game "Boston Massacre," an event that the Boston Globe's Washington bureau chief, Martin Nolan, called a "tracheotomy of the soul." Explains an M.I.T. psychology professor: "We are of Boston, and the Red Sox are our champions...
...Sinatra, one of his favorite singers. But his high, slightly nasal baritone retains an austere lyricism that goes back to Appalachian hills and hollows and beyond. Where much of commercial country music has only a catch in its throat, Willie's has a touch of iron in its soul...
...Willie is a roughneck with a poet's soul. When his dander isn't up he is courteous and softspoken, with some of the grave self-possession of the country man. His favorite reading is Kahlil Gibran and Edgar Cayce. Sitting around hotel rooms, he muses often on the theory of reincarnation and on karma as a sort of Newton's Third Law of the spirit ("Whatever goes around, comes around"). Willie is "irresistible to women," says a female member of his entourage, "because he's so sensitive along with being so masculine-like Shane." Willie...
...reality, there's nothing ecclesiastical at all about the Harvard cross country program, except for the exhausting pre-season training regimen, which is enough to drive even the stoutest soul to desperate prayer...