Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amused though puzzled by your review of Eugene Marais' The Soul of the Ape [Sept. 26]. I am aware of no more highly informed reporting of the new evolutionary interpretations of human behavior than the articles appearing in your BEHAVIOR section. Yet in the back of the magazine, one finds a reviewer deploring it all, suggesting that Marais speculates too much about the animal origins of the human unconscious (when that is what the book is about), and finally stating that Marais "came to grief over the noninheritance of acquired characteristics," a concept that never enters the work...
Commercial TV is what we live with... it provides the reflection that we all live with, and commercial TV is irredeemably and unalterably, implicitly and explicitly, a system for moving goods. It will take a few exertions of nothing less than a kind of anarchism of the soul to even postpone the desert...
...remember his poetry, with the fragmentary recall we use to remember such literature, these themes come to mind: love, anger at unintended cruelty, cynicism, a restlessness in the presence of old portraits, and a cry that someone discover a new order and resting place for the soul...
...read you a passage from Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice which says something about what is to be communicated so that people really know that you think it matter's what happens to them. Cleaver writes: "You have tossed me a lifeline. If you only knew how I'd been drowning, how I'd considered that I'd gone down for the third time long ago, how I've kept thrashing around in the water simply because I still felt the impulse to fight back and the tug of a distant shore, how I sat in a rage that...
...fantastic movie, but people who still believe in the alphabet and political movements are going to have a lot of trouble with it. While the film does have some moments of pure comic entertainment value (like a lot of obscene commercials made by the militants' "Truth and Soul" advertising agency), it is not enough of a comedy to hold an audience for laughs alone...