Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Seven million copies later, the authors are living happily ever after. Chicken Soup for the Soul: 101 Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit, by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, hit the top of the best-seller lists in 1995 and spawned a series of sequels--Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul, for the Pet-Lover's Soul, for the Teenage Soul, for the Soul at Work, ad nauseam--that together have sold more than an astounding 28 million copies. (Suggestion for a new title: Chicken Soup for the Souls of 33 Publishers Who Really, Really...
...books go heart to heart, soul to soul, to the core being of a person," says Hansen. Each contains 101 stories ("That's a spiritual number," he says), and few of those last longer than three pages--perfect for attention spans ground down to nothing by TV. No one will mistake Chicken Soup for literature, and in case you miss the point, the cover blurb from Robin ("Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous") Leach is a clue that you're not buying Middlemarch. From book to book, the tone is unvarying: earnest, unadorned and ruthlessly uplifting. The stories are gathered...
Stanley Kowalski, for example, may be a brute. But he's also a funny brute, slyly, sexily testing the gentility and hypocrisies by which his sister-in-law, Blanche DuBois, lives as they contend for the soul of Stella, his wife and her sister. Streetcar's director, Elia Kazan, loved this performance because of the way Brando "challenges the whole system of politeness and good nature and good ethics and everything else." It was, of course, this rebelliousness that made Brando a hero to kids growing up in the '50s--and made him a star...
...that he could draw on to fill it out. The son of alcoholics--a stern taciturn father; a sweet, culturally aspiring mom--he had drifted to New York City and into acting when he was expelled from the military school that was supposed to shake the flakiness from his soul...
Harvard faced UMass in the first round of theTournament for the third time in four years. In1994 the Minutewomen made quick work of theCrimson with a 3-0 win, and last year UMass hadwrenched Harvard's soul with a 2-1, tripleovertime victory. But 1997 would be different...