Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recalls wickedly. "A little Southern lady. 'I'm. busy,' I told him. Busy! I didn't know a soul...
...Roman Catholic and one of the most gifted of living French novelists, was pulled up short 23 years ago by the challenge of a friend and fellow Catholic: Was Mauriac's fascination with sin a shade too rapt for piety? Advised Thomist Jacques Maritain: let Mauriac examine his soul to see whether it was pure enough to portray evil "without conniving with...
Ellen holes up like a recluse with the infernal machine, gradually realizes that Mikki is a modern vampire sucking the life out of all human relationships. In an unintentionally funny kiss-off scene, she turns to the monster-marvel and says softly: "I don't like your soul..." Then, hauling out a heavy automatic, she riddles Mikki beyond repair...
...holding to my Mouth a Nectarine-good god how fine. It went down soft, slushy, oozy." This Keats, who loved food, pretty girls and hiking, does not match the stereotype of the romantic poet; he is far closer to Bernard Shaw's description of him as "a merry soul, a jolly fellow, who could not only carry his splendid burthen of genius, but swing it around, toss it up and catch it again, and whistle a tune as he strode along...
...Body and Soul (Buddy de Franco; (M-G-M). A bright new band that specializes in startling orchestrations expertly counterpointed by its leader's high-riding clarinet...