Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swarm beneath the surface of the story. Sadko is a spectacle-in adequate color-that need not pale beside Cecil B. DeMille. Dancers flash, warriors buffet, giant storms roll by with a verve that Hollywood can seldom induce. Above all, it is a spectacle that gives glimpses of the soul as well...
...problem of this novel is: How are you going to keep them down on the sound stage after they've read Ernest Hemingway? Ever since he thrilled to The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, the famous Hollywood director, John Wilson, had been burning in his soul to look down the sight of a .475 into the little blue-black eyes of a charging elephant...
...final signature" that William Faulkner spoke of will never be written by man, because man is incapable of the other attributes that Faulkner bestows on him, namely: that man is competent for a soul because he is capable of saving that soul . . .; that man is capable of teaching himself to be civilized. The pitiful history of man's wars, starvation, sickness, persecution and pestilence is evidence enough that no angels are watching...
...Freedom from Sin: "He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake...
...cannot get it now, even in Piccadilly-was three shillings a pound. Somehow we managed. We pulled through. No BBC helped us." But what really stirs his querulous ire is the evidence he sees around him that modern man has let the machine muffle the "daring" of his soul, has sheepishly turned much of his liberty over to government bureaucrats...