Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crisis of the soul. La revanche de Port-Royal. Letters from Racine...
...able to endure the thought of being defeated in athletics by Yale. The Harvard freshman of 1929 takes the School of Business in his stride, but when he sings "three cheers for Harvard, and down with Yale" he means it with all the fervor of his soul. Dr. Butler did not go into this phase of the development of American education, but doubtless it has manifested itself to him. N. Y. Times...
...five Negro members of Mr. Blackshear's congregation, only one ap peared in church the following Sunday. But nine new Negro faces were there. Six detectives eyed them suspiciously while Dr. Blackshear preached that "hate is the cancer of the soul." After the service the Negroes lingered in and around the church for a half-hour, were congratulated by several white worshippers...
Painter Orozco is almost a pure Spaniard. He dresses like a U. S. druggist, wears thick glasses, a huge mustache. In boyhood his left hand was blown off by a firecracker. Critics have used him as a butt for their most malicious onslaughts, attributing to him the "soul of an old prostitute," finding every vice in his drawings. Not only in Mexico has he been harassed. Once he tried to cross the border with a batch of drawings and was stopped by U. S. customs officials. They decided that the drawings were obscene and destroyed over a hundred...
...Columbia universities. Apt was his presidency of the International Congress of Psychology at Yale last week and witty, despite length, his speech of welcome. Said he: "In so far as psychologists are concerned, America was [prior to the last 50 years] like Heaven, for there was not a damned soul there." Another Cattell truism: ''The motions of the solar system since its beginning are less complicated than the play of a child for a day." A Cattell social irritant, which excited dark newspaper head lines: "The objects of the sciences are more ideal than the objects of the churches; their...