Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Americans are finding that the making of good food is more than a hobby; it can be an art. Few events can provide the communion to be enjoyed over a well-laid table. A soul-and palate-satisfying meal is no occasion for guilt or gluttony. Au contraire. Let us all recite, after grace, the litany of that elegant guru of gusto M.F.K. Fisher Art of Eating...
...SENSE, if the whales die we will be all alone. An old fisherman with a poetic soul put it well. "They was t'ousands of the big whales on the coast them times...They whales never hurted we, and we never hurted they...And I'll tell you one quare thing. So long as they was on the fishing grounds along of we, I never was afeard of anything, no, nor never felt lonely neither. But after times, when the whales was all done to death...I'd get a lonely feeling in my belly, like the world...
...intents and purposes, "Silk Degrees" was Scagg's first album--the one that established him as a high-fashion god of blue-eyed soul in the ears and minds of the record-buying public. The question then became, could he do it again, and do it as well...
Oates uses madness as a symbol for a peculiar kind of corruption in the soul. Her characters are not hateful because of anything that they do; they are not even guilty of the usual existentialist sins of cowardice and self-deception. On the contrary, they bravely confront problems which most of us prefer not to think about. Their only fault is the morbid quality of their fascination with these problems. Their ugliness is not a failure of character, but a rottenness of essence that can only be observed by an omniscient narrator...
...whether such feelings can ever be the essence of anyone's personality, or whether they are always a corruption of a basically decent nature. Because Oates symbolizes the doctor's whole personality by his necrophiliac impulses, she implies that necrophilia represents an essential quality in the human soul. No amount of observation could have led her to that conclusion--she must have chosen to believe it, and that choice makes the difference between a harsh view of reality and a morbid...