Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whose campaigns he had contributed, and "always supported my friends as I could within my means." A sample of how hard he would work for "one of my very dear friends" came in the Massachusetts gubernatorial campaign of 1952. when Democratic Incumbent Paul A. Dever ("May God rest his soul") was being attacked by the Boston Post. Goldfine's simple effort: he extended a $400,000 line of credit to the paper's owner, capricious Boy Wonder John Fox, on condition that the Post make a last-minute switch to support Dever. (It did, but Dever lost anyway...
Operation Serenity. Characteristically, Muñoz no sooner had Bootstrap going well four years ago than the poet in him came out. Was Puerto Rico turning materialist, losing its gracious leisure, abandoning its soul? Recalls a member of his staff: "He began talking about how industrialization was raising cities but destroying old values. He used to push a statue of Gandhi toward Moscoso while Moscoso was talking figures, rates, profits. One day Moscoso exploded: 'Stop shoving that statue at me! If I take it seriously, we will have no economic progress...
With the help of hindsight, successful Dictator Francisco Franco probed the failure of unsuccessful Dictator Adolf Hitler: "Hitler was an affected man. He lacked naturalness. Hitler had the soul of a gambler, and furthermore, he totally lacked knowledge of the psychology of peoples. He never understood anything about the soul of the English. He had not prepared, either completely or logically, his war. Germany had been carefully prepared, but only for a short war-not a long...
...ailing Christians are far more inclined to turn for relief to an M.D. than a D.D. More and more clergymen, including the new United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (TIME, June 16), are taking seriously the idea that prayer has something to offer the body as well as the soul. In October 1953, the Church of England appointed a 28-man commission of ministers and medical men "to consider the theological, medical, psychological and pastoral aspects of 'Divine Healing.' " Last week the report was out. Its gist: the hope and faith religion can give provide a valuable basis...
...what is health? Author O'Connor finds it readymade for him to put on in the wise words of Montaigne: "The grandeur of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly; its grandeur does not exercise in grandeur, but in mediocrity." If O'Connor had held to this maxim as stoutly in his prose (which is often sheer gibberish) as he has in taking the "road to conformity," Public Baby would have been easier to take as a memorial to an ill-spent life...