Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...path toward Lehman Hall. The early morning boulevardier is Aldrich Durant, Business Manager of the University and his invisible colleague might well be the spiritual embodiment of the Harvard Corporation, which has saddled this shrewd Yankee with a thankless job that has often caused him agitation of the soul...
...talks most of God, of peasants, and of woman. . . . Yet his silence is impressive . . . surely he has some thoughts of which he is afraid . . . . In the evening, while walking, he suddenly said: 'Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his most tormenting tragedy has been, is, and will be-the tragedy of the bedroom.' " "How do you like." he asked Gorky, "Sophie Andreyevna [his wife]?" Not many years later the aged Tolstoy ran away from home because of Sophie Andreyevna, fell ill en route and died...
...disciples flocking to tell the Master how pure they had become since following his teachings. To Gorky's mind they all had "boneless perspiring hands and lying eyes"; Tolstoy himself rose above them like a "noble belfry." Once when a disciple was discussing the state of his soul, Tolstoy "leant over and said to me in a low voice: 'He's lying, all the time, the rogue, but he does it to please me.' " The state of Tolstoy's own soul puzzled Gorky greatly. "I could never believe that he was an atheist," he wrote...
...pressed for time, read the first half of the book and toss it away. Some place midway between the middle and the last third, Miss Howe begins to search for a soul for Dorothea. She finds it for her--you've guessed it--not in Cambridge, but Out West, among the peepul. Not until Dorothea joins the bedpan brigade in a Boston hospital and follows it up with a train trip (tourist class) to Idaho, does she discover Life...
More successful than his venture into military mutiny was a clandestine newspaper which Rousset published during the war. His researcher's soul was annoyed because the Germans falsified business statistics and economic facts. To keep French businessmen from making mistakes, he operated a sort of underground Wall Street Journal...