Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thanks for digging your fingernails into the rocky Toynbee (TIME, March 17]. Slumbering America needs the challenge of dangling cliffs. What is to be the fate of a civilization which doesn't acknowledge a "schism in the soul?" Historian Toynbee has shown us that our problem is basically theological...
...after the 1937 strike was settled, Charley changed. To the Embarcadero's profane amazement, he became a follower of Father Divine. He ate a chicken dinner, got his soul shampooed and his past washed away, and was reborn as Brother True Knowledge. His wife was reborn, too. She was christened True Obedience and became his sister. When they moved into Father Divine's "Peace Mission" in the Negro section of Oakland, he slept in the men's dormitory, and True Obedience in the women's quarters upstairs...
...decide which groups constitute a menace to the security of the nation. This widespread discrimination in the hands of an over-zealous or personally ambitious officer could easily result in the practical exclusion of free thought in government circles. A program advocating the investigation of every employee's soul as well as his affiliations transcends the obvious limits of national security by its susceptibility to vicious abuse and weakens an important safeguard to democratic rights...
...life of but sixteen years. Present were Oliver Wendell Holmes, Professors James Russell Lowell and Charles Eliot Norton. Advocate memoranda of the time record that "representatives of the Crimson and of the new-born Lampoon were allowed to share in the feast of reason and the flow of the soul." The only "distressing" aspect of the affair was that it ruined the paper financially...
...they are base. . . . Anyone who's not quite stupid can't live without despising himself. ... To love one's neighbor and not despise him ... is impossible. -. . . 'Love for humanity' must be understood as love for that humanity which you have yourself created in your soul . . . and which, therefore, never will be in reality...