Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation searches its soul...
Initially, many viewers felt that the series, which had been dubbed in German, unnecessarily reopened old wounds. But then came a cathartic outpouring of soul searching, similar to the one that emerged in the U.S. after Roots was shown. Young people were appalled to be reminded that many of their elders had not protested the slaughter. "How and why could this sort of thing happen?" asked one horrified young viewer. "Where were the churches? Why did they not protest? Why was there no resistance?" Those who had lived through Hitler's reign reproached themselves. Said a Frankfurt book salesman...
...individual cliff swallow is the philosophical equivalent of a single cell of the multicellular colony-organism," realizing that every good biologist must also be a philosopher. "The biologist," he concludes, "approaches nature in the form of a plant or animal and immediately begins asking questions about the innermost soul, the innermost characteristics, the true spectrum as well as the immediate traits, of the living thing." Janovy cannot offer his readers conclusive answers. But as his jewel of a journal makes clear, he never fails to ask the right questions...
...scholar, who must look beyond people to ideas, because people are only transients, while ideas live forever. But it goes beyond that. It also sees people as less important than institutions, because it believes the institution will last forever, too. It lets you think you can forget about your soul, the part that makes you human, because institutions do not have, or need, souls. It makes you think you are as important as the institution because you are a part of it--as important, and as impersonal. It teaches you to think like an institution, to quantify results and maximize...
...Ellello*u, the drought that brings his nation to the limits of starvation is more than a mischance of the elements or even, as one of his enemies calls it, "bad ecology." It represents a blot on the nation's soul, a demon that has to be exorcised, the work of an angry Allah demanding sacrifice. So he sacrifices. First goes the ancient king who had been his prisoner since the revolution, then an American foreign service officer who tries to bring food supplies across the border from a less doctrinaire socialist, and less impoverished, neighbor. In each case Ellello...