Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Connecticut's Republican Senator William A. Purtell went farther. Said he: "If this doctor must exact the last pound of flesh from the practice of his profession," citizens generally should raise a fund to pay the bill. "I am willing," added Purtell, "out of the outrage to my soul, to subscribe the first $50." But, said Dr. Kris, "it's not a question of money. It's a question of principle...
...Harvard CRIMSON, which has sold its talents and its equipment, but not its soul, to the Summer School, will lay its talents, equipment, and soul at the disposal of all students who are interested in news, editorial, photographic, or business work on the Harvard Summer News...
...been an all-night sucker for the beastly magic of a local witch doctor. Hoping to bridge the gulf between European and African knowledge, he has dabbled in mysterious rites (in one, a man was burned to death by no visible flame) and is now desperately afraid for his soul. The fate of this jungle Dr. Faustus is sealed in what the press calls "the great Clausen scandal." Kenya-raised Novelist Huxley (Red Strangers, The Walled City) has written a literate thriller that is short on gore (despite the unlimited possibilities) and long on insight. It is also a drama...
...suck candy in the Congo" (i.e., do not take innocence into dark places) seems to be the moral pointed by British Novelist Elspeth Huxley,* latest explorer to go soul-searching in the jungle. Dr. Ewart Clausen, a famed Norwegian scientist, has renounced the world for his bush clinic at Luala, in French Equatorial Africa, and has become "a secular saint in the humanist calendar." From the far corners of the earth pilgrims come to sit at his feet; he proffers a bag of sticky bull's-eyes, advice, and the magic of his presence...
...postwar romance between novelists and the business world-a highly tentative affair at best-may be going pfffft. The hero of From the Dark Tower deserts his executive suite in Manhattan and his split-level home in the suburbs to fish for his soul in the shade of a Rocky Mountain peak. The hero of The Durable Fire undergoes the equivalent of a deathbed conversion before he can regain his faith in the corporate way of life. Both men sing the organizational blues, to wit, Big Business is too much like Big Brother...