Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communism is the greatest, most dangerous power that the church has ever faced. Mohammedanism wanted to destroy the church materially but left her her soul. Communism would pervert the soul of the church. This is because the church is the greatest obstacle in the path of materialism. There are more Communists who see in Christianity their chief enemy than Christians who see their enemy in Communism...
Frankfurter recalled the Harvard Law School of 50 years ago and especially extolled the late Dean James Barr Ames who was "the soul of the school for 35 years." The atmosphere created by Ames, he said, gave one the desire to "do battle with the complexities of life...
...first editors of Pravda was a young Georgian bandit named Djugashvili, alias Koba, alias Stalin, he owed his future. His own underground alias was derived from molot, meaning hammer. But though he was as methodical and repetitive as a foundry trip hammer, the stuff of his soul was not steel, but the durable latex of a heavy-handed rubber stamp. "The best filing, clerk in Russia," Lenin had said. "You are mediocrity incarnate," shouted Trotsky...
Throughout India, the land of Gandhi's satyagraha (peaceful soul force), a tide of violence was on the rise. Never far be neath the surface since January's Bombay riots, in which hundreds of people were killed, it broke again with a sudden and terrible fury in the blaze of India's consuming summer heat...
...late. "It would not be enough to resolve to leave in case you found yourself severely tempted. By that time you would already have incurred a serious danger of interiorly yielding to temptation, and the seeds of future temptation would already be implanted in your soul. Granted the normal tendencies of human nature, it is unlikely that an individual would be strong-minded enough to prevent these evils by leaving the theater as soon as the first signs of danger appeared." Anyone who is certain he will not be tempted by a given picture is morally free to attend...