Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Purge My Soul." He told reporters, "I did not . . . realize the insatiable demand for material security which my wife possessed. From the very beginning there developed an unreasoning fear and jealousy of anyone with whom I had contact . . . There began a calculated campaign to transfer to her every material asset that I owned and a constant threat to accuse me of imaginary infidelities . . . This pattern reached its climax in the early part of 1945, when I was repeatedly faced with the demand that I acknowledge these imaginary happenings, and, as she put it, 'purge my soul.' She stated...
...behind?" That these words lack logic makes no difference; Shelley wrote them in an era when young men had a right to be far more gay and optimistic than they are in ours. But for years we have suspected that they are merely the careless lyricism of an exuberent soul. Indeed, for the past month we have entertained certain misgivings as to whether spring will come ata all this year...
...Philadelphia, John F. O'Hara, Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia, wrote in a pastoral letter: "In effect the Supreme Court has ruled that the states may label as poison only what affects the body, not that which can destroy the soul...
There are two confidential clerks in the employ of Sir Claude Mulhammer, one an old, pure soul, about to retire. The other, Colby Simpkins, is a frustrated musician, whom Sir Claude believes to be his illegitimate son. Simpkins feels that his music exits in an unreal world as long as Sir Claude is his father; his life belongs in finance, with his parent. Yet, strangely enough, finance also seems like fantasy to him, and for a while, he feels that every man is given one vocation from his parents and one from God alone. In the final act, as Simpkins...
...Claude, although he reads his lines extremely well, seems to have an equally difficult time of deciding whether he should be hard and dominating or confused and sentimental. He is a little too much of the Latter. Newton Blick makes an excellent Eggerson, however. He is a blessed soul, completely at terms with the world...