Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pass one another, en route, all unknowing, I wonder; one of us spry-eyed, with clean, white lectures and a soul he could call his own, going buoyantly west to his remunerative doom in the great state university factories; another returning dog-eared as his clutch of poems and his carefully typed impromptu asides? I ache for us both. There one goes, unsullied as yet, in his Pullman pride, toying-oh, boy!-with a blunderbuss bourbon, being smoked by a large cigar, riding out to the wide open spaces of the faces of his waiting audience...
...campagne in his first-and last-parish. In terror because, as he says, "I knew nothing about my fellow man," he retreats for longer and longer periods into prayer. When prayer comes hard, he fasts. From too much fasting he grows weak. Troubled with mysterious pain of body and soul, he struggles helplessly with his practical responsibilities. The children of the village laugh at him, prank him ruthlessly. When he innocently tries to give spiritual advice to the worldly lord of the manor, that glacial aristocrat calls him crazy. Soon everyone seems to hate him. The middle-aged priest...
...little priest" has only one success, but that is enough to ruin him. With a magnificent effort of his whole soul-it is the finest scene in the film-he converts the lady of the manor. But the strain is too much for her heart, and she dies the same night. Everybody blames her confessor...
...words, melodic to the ear but distracting visually. Also the same use of alliteration which often makes the play smoothly sing out, is occasionally handled less skillfully: "Now in the light she'll work, sing, milk, say the cows' sweet names and sleep until the night sucks out her soul and spits it into the sky. In her life-long love light, holily Bessie milks the fond lake-eyed cows as dusk showers slowly down over byre, sea, and town...
FACE. The mirror of the soul. Hence some people's souls must be rather ugly...