Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scholar, lawyer, publicist, Anton Smetona threw his very soul into a fight for Lithuania against the Russian autocracy. But, hounded by Tsarist secret police, branded by many as a conspirator, blackened as an opportunist, he stood no chance against the arrayed might of Imperial Russia?not until...
...these Festivals is that they will start with a play related in some way to religion, in accordance with the ecclesiastical traditions of the town. This year, at last, it was Everyman, the morality in which God, in a wig, does lusty battle against Satan for the soul of Man, before the ancient doors of the Salzburg Cathedral...
Centuries ago the princely archbishops of Falzburg, all-powerful in the city, gave welcome to the drama as a religious agent. They presented the pageant of Saints in Splendor, the drama of God and Satan warring for the soul...
...with a Jewish consciousness and a self-respect. Both they and their childen had the will to be and to remain Jews." Another of his observations: "The direct calamity which has befallen Judaism in the recent generations is the attempt of the Communists of Russia to strangulate the Jewish soul...
...were wearing "We Won the War" buttons, was later jailed by England for another fraud. The vexed matter of debt collection is skillfully elucidated following an esthetic discourse on skyscrapers, of which the "stone and steel logic" is shown to be the reality behind the Uncle Shylock myth. The soul within the logic comes through in the eyes of Manhattan office workers who, it is well known, sometimes pause to gaze in breathless wonder at their ethereal city...