Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles north of Bombay. It was in Ahmedabad that Gandhi set up his chief ashram (model community). The shrewd, industrious Gujaratis (Gandhi was one himself) gave his independence movement its first mass following. In Ahmedabad last week two of Gandhi's most effective weapons against the British-satyagraha (soul force) and fasting-rose up to plague the new nation they had created...
What few Indians cared to recognize, however, was that both the student curfew and Desai's fast represented a dangerous retrogression in Indian politics. In Gandhi's day, soul force and fasting were directed against an alien government. Today India's mobs are using soul force (and physical force) in an attempt to overturn decisions of their own Parliament, and Indian leaders who fast to assert their power are countering with another perversion of Gandhi's legacy...
Thus The Nun's Story is the story of a failure. As such it tells-far more convincingly than many a spiritual success story-the tremendous, unsuspected battles of the soul that are fought behind cloister walls. As for Gabrielle Van der Mal (a pseudonym), she came to the U.S. in 1951 with Author Hulme, under whom she had served in a U.N. refugee mission. The ex-nun has since become nursing supervisor of a large Los Angeles hospital and last month she became an American citizen. If she has any more to say it is probably what...
Before they separated, with plans to send a representative to the 1958 World Youth Conference in Canada, Baptist Ted Adams reminded them that there are "many different forces contending for your mind and soul. Communism says there is no God. Christianity says there is . . . Christianity is not frightened but challenged, not dismayed but stimulated . . . This is because Christianity has outlived, outdone and outdied all forms of dictatorial government and way of life . . . [Today] people must be willing to give their lives for Jesus Christ. In the present world God has use for expendable people only...
...dreaded the sex act and remained "psychically virgins." They had a "miniminy mouth"; that is, they were " 'mim,' prim, reticent, shy, affected." They tended to be frigid, attract weak, boyish men, hated kissing on the mouth (a witch's kiss was believed to draw out the soul). Often they had affairs, mainly with married men. They hated and hurt men, yet believed they were of loving disposition; they were charming, and yet tortured...