Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...being so honest with each other McKelway and Buchanan raised a clear-cut issue that had the C.I.O. American Newspaper Guild in a dither of soul-searching last week. The Star unit of the Guild first tried to ignore the case, and the city-wide executive board of the Guild refused to go to bat for Communist Buchanan. But, just to be sure that it was speaking for its membership, the board called for a referendum vote on whether Communists can be fired simply for being Communists...
...lose her mind when her estranged lover killed him. She plays the mad scenes as if she had never heard that Ophelia is one of Shakespeare's most shameless tearjerkers, and as if her lovely language and her cracked, ribald little songs were drifting out of a broken soul for the first time, rather than for the third century...
...Israel in 1939, the same year went on the air to become one of radio's top religious broadcasters. In Peace of Mind-a "selfhelp" book-he tried to make religion's peace with psychoanalysis, argued their compatibility, urged his readers toward a "shockproof balance . . . inside the soul...
...Soul Surgeon." Such spiritual showmanship is the latest, and most successful, mutation of Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman's particular form of 20th Century evangelism. Born of Pennsylvania Dutch stock and educated at Allentown's (Pa.) Muhlenberg College, Buchman was ordained a Lutheran minister in 1902, and did welfare work in a Lutheran hospice for boys in a suburb of Philadelphia. From 1909 to 1915 he was secretary of the Y.M.C.A. at Pennsylvania State College. He has never married...
...eastern U.S. campuses and in better-class communities, "Soul Surgeon" Frank Buchman's Groupers organized house parties for tennis, tea, and friendly arm-on-shoulder proselytizing. Groupers were encouraged to "get square with God" by "sharing" their sins in public confessions to their fellow members-a practice which led some outsiders to accuse Groupers of an undue interest in sex. No creed or doctrine was necessary. "Absolute Honesty, Absolute Purity, Absolute Unselfishness and Absolute Love" were the Buchmanite requirements, plus regular "quiet times" for listening...