Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good deal of moving back & forth between the airy study and the serious basement. The majority of Sheen's books (Peace of Soul, Lift Up Your Heart, Three to Get Married) are upstairs work, designed for the middle-brow reader. But some are serious, furnace-room philosophy (God and Intelligence, The Philosophy of Religion). This week Sheen published his 36th full-length book, The World's First Love, about the Virgin Mary. Like all his others, the book is dedicated to Mary - or, as he puts it in the dedication, "the Woman Who, in a world of Reds...
...blast-beruffled plume, Had chosen thus to fling his soul...
...well. A panel of distinguished judges, including Stravinsky, Honegger and La Scala's principal conductor, Victor de Sabata, had picked his Proserpina and the Stranger over 137 other entries (16 from the U.S.) in La Scala's international contest for the best three-act opera. A philosophical soul, Castro was surprised but not overwhelmed at winning the contest. Said he: "I am always prepared for things not to go well. For me, submitting the opera was like playing the lottery." He got enthusiastic applause when he stepped to the podium to conduct. But almost with the first notes...
...brushes artists used in the 17th century. As the domineering father in The Barretts of Wimpole Street, he became intolerably high & mighty around his own home. When he acted the murderer in Payment Deferred, he got so morose he nearly had a nervous breakdown. Says Korda of these soul struggles: "What he needs is not a director but a midwife...
...dense clump of trees near an outlying factory. One tree was so loaded with vines that it looked like a green igloo. He climbed to the top and fell through with a crash. The mound was hollow and dark inside, and full of squeaking bats. A great peace of soul descended over Dubkin; he had found a tribe of gay little friends, and he had also found a much-needed refuge from his widowed, too-possessive mother...