Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day, after a long evening's struggle with his political soul in a friend's flat, Nye Bevan told Attlee of his decision: he was resigning from the shadow cabinet and would "resume the freedom of the back benches," where he can criticize his own party leadership to his heart's content. He "profoundly disagreed" with Labor's decision to support EDC and the immediate rearmement of Germany (though privately he admits that German rearmament is inevitable). The Asia proposal, he charged, was "tantamount to the diplomatic and military encirclement" of what he persists...
Lexicographers Hofford and Wright have also included a vocabulary in re- verse: groups of words listed by their last letters. The a's, for instance, run from ba (the soul of man in ancient Egypt) to zamia (a cycadaceous plant). The i's have such useful quickies as ai (a three-toed sloth), li (Chinese unit of measure), obi (a Japanese sash worn with a kimono) and tui (a parson bird...
...pygmy is a traveling salesman named Fernand Ravinel who has the face of a brute and the soul of a sparrow. His mistress, Dr. Lucienne Mogard. is as cold and sharp as a scalpel. When they entice Ravinel's wife Mireille to Nantes, their object is murder and their motive is 2,000,000 francs of insurance money. As a killer, Ravinel proves tender and compassionate. After Mireille drinks a carefully prepared potion, her eyes close and Ravinel tearfully helps to lower her inert body into a bathtub full of water. "Don't worry, Mireille," he says...
...direction. The backdrop was surrealistic, the action stark; much of the time dancers moved in the distance, derisively, sometimes vulgarly satirizing the downstage action. But the critics denounced the work unanimously, suggested that the composer was too much the child of a corrupt and violent age. "His soul," wrote Il Tempo's critic, "is a page on which the evils of our age have written cruel words...
BANK OF AMERICA, which owns 30 motion pictures (among them: Arch of Triumph, Body and Soul), has signed a contract with General Teleradio Inc. to put them on TV. General Teleradio will pay more than $1,250,000 for the TV showings, will release the first 15 for telecasting within the next few months...