Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second compelling reason for volunteer work involves the individual and collective soul in any culture. A society's morale is always healthiest during a war (one that it supports and is not losing badly); everyone is forever volunteering for something: rolling bandages, running canteens-feeling helpful, a part of things. Contrary to the narcissistic sects now working the Pop culture, plumping egos like pillows, the individual spirit flourishes best in useful contact with others. And the collective spirit cannot thrive when individuals are all arcing around in their small green capsules of self-regard...
...little affair with Voigt, the radical Vietnam paraplegic, was a mind-opening and beautiful experience for her, but is she really going to live a with someone who's paralyzed from the waist down for the rest of her life? And Clayburgh, although she does go through a deep, soul-searching experience with a fashionable, female, Manhattan shrink after her husband leaves her, really doesn't find happiness until she finds Alan Bates. And Annie Girardot, who fits neither of these categories, instead idiotically bounces back, and forth between career, children, and lover, in that order, making not much sense...
...mystique of jogging, with its claims to work wonders for body and soul, has begun to invade American psychiatry. Some psychiatrists now routinely prescribe jogging instead of pills for moderate depression. Others use it to break down patients' defenses in talk therapy, and a few believe running produces chemical changes that help cure serious disorders. Jogging literature now features overblown claims for the method. Runner's World magazine says that Kostrubala may be "a therapeutic messiah who will lead the mentally disturbed out of the desert." Writer Valerie Andrews, in her forthcoming book, The Psychic Power of Running...
...regular hour-long sermons about the tyranny and terror all around him. He is a small man and his voice is low-keyed, but it is strong and steady. Newspapers almost daily vilify him as corrupt, insane, as a Communist, as a man who "sells his soul to the Devil." They never print the news his sermons contain...
Aside from the dull, in candescent glow of his Woolworth's lamp, Bobby's color T.V. was the only light in his living room. It sent a stupifying green-purple din into his soul, increasing his sense of urban isolation and loneliness. He couldn't find any women who would go out with him that evening, and his buddies were probably whooping it up in the backs of their pickups (or so he thought). But Bobby had his color T.V. and Ken Harrelson and Dick Stockton, and with Rick Burleson up against Ron Guidry, the count...