Word: soulfulness
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Like Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye, Teddy Pendergrass was among the greatest male soul singers of the 20th century. We first noticed Teddy's talent while we were rehearsing Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes. One day in the early 1970s, Teddy, the group's drummer, was asked to sing, and this great, powerful voice came out of this tall, thin guy. He had one of the most flexible voices we had ever heard...
...behind a copy of the book in his hotel room.) But what matters is that even for the millions of people who weren't crazy, Holden Caulfield, Salinger's petulant, yearning (and arguably manic-depressive) young hero was the original angry young man. That he was also a sensitive soul in a cynic's armor only made him more irresistible. James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway had invented disaffected young men too. But Salinger created Caulfield at the very moment that American teenage culture was being born. A whole generation of rebellious youths discharged themselves into one particular rebellious youth. (Read...
...Gospels of Sri Ramakrishna, the 19th century Hindu mystic. His beliefs started to find their way into his fiction. In his haunting story "Teddy," a college instructor on a transatlantic cruise ship makes the acquaintance of an otherworldly little boy who calmly believes himself to be a reincarnated soul and meets a fate he predicts for himself. (See more about J.D. Salinger...
...That was the day I realized that Favre had dominated in his role as team leader to the point that he was probably the only one who could have lost the game without breaking my heart. He was the soul of the Packers, the kinetic freewheeler who so captivated his followers that you could walk into any Wisconsin grocery store at 2 p.m. on a Sunday afternoon and be the only shopper there. If there has been an identity crisis in the Midwest over the past year, it's because Brett Favre is such an indelible force of nature that...
...tourists flock in by the busload. But for much of the rest of the time, the hills seem still half-forgotten, and it is possible to hike through the bamboo forests (every bamboo marked with the name of the family entitled to harvest it) for hours without meeting another soul. The air is clean, stars are visible in their spangled glory at night, and in the fall and winter a roaring fire in a potbellied stove is complete bliss...