Word: soul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WELLS (H.G.) The Soul of a Bishop...
...been a lot of fun, getting out this special book number. To sit down unhampered by editorial supervision, to air one's opinions, and to clear away a mass of repressions is good for the soul. Of course, it is also an expensive luxury. But then it gives a measure of employment to typesetters and printers' devils, paper makers and the like. And what this country needs is to put money into circulation. It is a matter of self-preservation...
...lives of America's aristocracy of wealth. The fundamental problem is this: should one postulate an ideal of wealth as the basis of human existence or should one go out into the wilds far from monetary cares amid the birds and fish and there look at one's soul. All this is quite apparent at the end of the second act, which by the way, is brilliant in spots and abounds in clever banter; there is, however, no real need of prolonging the third act with a reiteration of the case before staging the long anticipated ending. A shorter scene...
...spite of these interruptions, and also in spite of several irritating instances of dragging in the action, this picture of one-of-those women being evangelized and then scandalized by a self-appointed soul-healer, who combines in himself the righteousness of a Father Confessor, the diction of a bishop, the vanity of a mayor, the power of a governor, and the morals of certain other reformers one could mention (but bygones are bygones), is convincingly performed. It is comforting to see that when Joan Crawford and Walter Huston are ordered to enact a "cloudburst of passion," they not only...
Rockefeller, as Mr. Flynn sees him, is an organizing genius with the soul of a pious bookkeeper. Rockefeller's world has always been extraordinary circumscribed. As a young man it was continued almost exclusively to his produce business--his Sunday school class was almost his only diversion. He applied himself to getting ahead. When in the sixties he went into the oil refinery business, his way went through chaos. He shuddered at the prolific wastes of competition. The solution which he saw was combination and he applied himself to the task of making a combination which would make his business...