Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story has it that the people of Bessans began whittling devils in the 14th Century to commemorate a home-town boy named Duvallon, who sold his soul to Satan on a Christmas night. For 50 years thereafter, Duvallon was able to tote huge pine trees about on his shoulders and to float up & down the River Arc in a magic, unsinkable jacket. Satan at last came to collect, of course, suffused with devilish glee. Duvallon slipped his wife's wedding ring on his own finger for protection, jumped on his horse and galloped off to Rome. The Pope prescribed...
...greatest contribution of everyone must be confidence. "We are talking about what is in the hearts," said Eisenhower. ". . . Nobody can defend another nation by itself. The true defense of the nation can be found in its own soul." Why is the Western world, with its great potential, frightened? Because of the enemy's unity of purpose, "a unity achieved by force, by ignorance and by the NKVD." The only answer to that challenge is an answering unity of free...
...However, he provides such sinister vegetable ones that a nervous reader may take to watching his peas and cucumbers in quite a new way. In The Terror of the Twins, space is somehow seized as a weapon in the invisible hands of a spirit, and used to gouge the soul out of one man and prod it into another; the characters are dim as ghosts, but the malefic air is almost as palpable as a knife in the ribs...
...words, Novelist Jean-Paul Sartre, biggest postwar noise in France, declares the text of Volume III in his long existential sermon, the four-volume novel called The Roads to Freedom. Sartre's richly rewarded purpose is to trace the stink of defeat to its sources in the French soul and, before he is through, to demonstrate the uses of existentialism as a spiritual disinfectant-or at least deodorant...
Sooner or later, movies with children in the title roles come to a point where neither the child nor his supporting adults can look at one another without becoming highly emotional. Those who like these eye-wetting denouements will find. "The Mudlark" both heartwarming and soul-satisfying; others should leave five minutes before the end of the film...