Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Menthon, the 20 Boches in the dock were not the only guilty ones. The entire German people was to blame, he declared, for Naziism merely had exploited their "power of latent barbarism . . . one of the deepest and most tragic facets of the German soul. . . . Certain of their eternal and deep-seated aspirations have found monstrous expressions under the Hitler regime; their entire responsibility is involved. . . . Their re-education is indispensable...
Unitarianism stages no soul-stirring ritual, and has little mass appeal-its present U.S. membership is only 62,500. But Unitarians, few in number, boast of the great influence of their adherents, which have included such learned and illustrious Americans as Jefferson, the presidential Adamses, Emerson, Thoreau, William Howard Taft, Oliver Wendell Holmes...
...participated in the political and social changes of Western civilization. "The relation of the German to the world is abstract and mystical, that is, musical. . . . The Germans have given the Western world perhaps not its most beautiful, socially uniting, but certainly its deepest, more significant music.*. . . Such musicality of soul is paid for dearly in another sphere-the political, the sphere of human companionship...
...nothing else, will, for a generation or two, stupefy the world; commit all manner of crimes, perhaps; follow the wildest chimeras, go down in the end in agony, but leave behind a record of new heights scaled and new rewards won for all mankind; the vision fades, the soul sickens, and the routine of survival starts again...
Eddie Condon once tried to tell a New York Daily Newsman, in the plainest language he could muster, about his troubles in making the "real jazz" pay enough for tea for two, or keep body & soul together night & day: "We bled to death. We were eating off each other's wrists. We had one paper hat right on the hook but when we mentioned money he jumped back in the icebox." Another potential sponsor died during negotiations: "He went cool on us. They had to throw dirt...