Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people in similar weekly appearances on the Boston Common. His harangues have gotten more bitten and vitriolic every Sunday, and his audience, larger. His "cause" is to "rid our city of every coward liberal Catholic, Jew dog, Protestant brute, and 33rd degree Mason who is trying to suck the soul from good Catholics and sell the true faith for greenbacks...
...poetry-for-the-people movement expects to be successful, it could well take a lesson from Amory who nearly succeeded in joining poetry and drama without losing the best points of either form. Otherwise, even select audiences may tire of seeing a poet's soul so confusingly bared...
...understand them. By an irony, he is among those crucified for the burning of the city. "When he felt death approaching, that which he had always been so afraid of, he said out into the darkness, as though he were speaking to it:-To thee I deliver up my soul...
...parable, Barabbas is open to many interpretations. As a picture of a human soul, with or without parable, it is moving and convincing...
...contribution to art. His admirers believe that, at 68, he is the greatest living sculptor. His critics argue that this is true only if, by sculpture, is meant the art of making speaking likenesses. For jovial Jo has never been one to conjure up abstractions or depict the unseen "soul" of his sitters. He takes people, quite literally, at their face value. When the face wears a mask (as he finds most faces do), Jo waits for the moment when the mask slips-and pounces...