Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Illinois, he dutifully mastered his catechism, the doctrines of predestination and a high tariff. At home one day, young Bode remarked that something might be said for Evolution. His father rushed out of the house, hitched up his horses, and drove all day, praying for his son's soul. "For me," said Bode, "it was a period of unmitigated suffering...
Along with Kennedy in the original Gold Coast Orchestra was one John Green '98, who since has written such songs as "Body And Soul" and "You Came Along." In Kennedy's time, the orchestra was not so commercial as it became in later years, and played jam sessions--or "ad lib," as Kennedy puts it--as often as it worked from arrangements...
...them, the hymn Praise, my Soul, the King of Heaven, has been selected by Princess Elizabeth as the opening hymn at her wedding. † To the tune composed by William Henry Monk, first musical editor of the Church of England's Hymns Ancient and Modern...
...Soul & Body. High point of The Apostolic Fathers is the "Letter to Diognetus." Written in the form of a letter to a pagan to describe "this new group or institute" which calls itself "Christian," its moving characterization of the sect is still a counsel of perfection. Excerpt: "Christians are not different from the rest of men in nationality, speech or customs; they do not live in states of their own, nor do they use a special language, nor adopt a peculiar way of life. Their teaching is not the kind of thing that could be discovered by the wisdom...
Gertrude Stein had leisure, intelligence, curiosity and quite a bit of gall. She never got tired of playing games with language. She preferred to live in Europe, but America and Americans always fascinated her. Four in America is an inquiry about the American soul as exemplified in four great men: Ulysses S. Grant, Wilbur Wright, Henry James and George Washington. A year ago last July, a few weeks before her death, Miss Stein sent the manuscript to Yale, which has now published it in its entirety for the first time...