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Word: soulfulness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question your characterization of me as a "highly suggestible sort" because I was deprogrammed and then reconverted to the Unification Church. After long soul-searching I realized that the divine principle, the revelation of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, was true. There is a spiritual revolution taking place, and all the deprogrammers in the world can't stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 12, 1979 | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...This is a struggle for the soul of the country." So declared an impassioned leader of the upstart Scottish National Party, as Britain approached a long-awaited referendum on "devolution," the Labor government's plan to transfer authority in health, education, housing and other matters from the Parliament in Westminster to regional assemblies to be established in Edinburgh and Cardiff. What prompted Labor's initiative was not a question of soul but of cold politics. Though the Nationalists had been campaigning for greater independence for years, they never won much attention until 1974, when the Scottish party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Devolution Off | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

Other dichotomies haunt Dubin's life. He is Jewish; his wife is a WASP. He is a city boy transplanted to the country, middle-aged and in love with youth, an orderly soul fighting chaos. The novel is one long standoff between these competing forces, and in the end there is no resolution...

Author: By Susanna Rodell, | Title: Nothing Happened | 3/6/1979 | See Source »

...full of threat and challenge, never mean to menace. They are, rather, about anger and desperation, about violence as a condition more than a prescription. Last Gang in Town, a fleet, bleak vision of the immediate future with London deeply riven by intramural combat between "rockabilly rebels," "skinhead gangs," "soul rebels" and "zydeco kids," is in part a smart parable about musical rivalries. Even more to the point, it is a shrewd reflection on class and generational warfare, as Strummer sings, "The sport of today is exciting/ The In crowd are into infighting/ . . . It's brawn against brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Best Gang in Town | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...plays in effect present contrasting visions of two trapped women: one wants to write, and one is forced to. I Can Feel the Air is a tale of a triumphant soul whereas The Yellow Wallpaper chronicles the inexorable crushing of a human spirit...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: Simon at the Shubert and Spies at the Pudding | 2/22/1979 | See Source »

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