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Word: soul (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Billy Boy Wax ("the waxy wax that spells relax"). The action unfolds to the accompaniment of some thunderous cliches: "You remind me of someone I knew long, long ago"; "Love is just the most important thing that can happen to a person"; "Beneath that smiling mask stands the soul of a beast." For this pastiche Composer Moore (The Devil and Daniel Webster, Giants in the Earth) wrote a score that is alternately jazzy and sugary, but that in itself every so often sounds embarrassingly "sincere." While the nurse administers the ether, she bends over her patient-lover and croons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Of Ghosts & Soap | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

...Movieman Lindsay Anderson, 35, and Drama Critic Ken Tynan, 31, said artists must "take an interest in social environment-and that means politics." The rest, spearheaded by Existentialist Colin (The Outsider) Wilson, 25, insisted that politics is for common people, that salvation must first be found by searching the soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Sloane Square Stomp | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

Died. Giuseppe Romita, 71, post-World War II Italian Cabinet minister, anti-Communist Socialist who once shouted in a party convention: "We have become just the boot cleaners of the Communists, who-if the truth were known-are highly amused with our efforts to discover our soul," later led an intraparty revolt against Communist ties; in Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 24, 1958 | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

...government was closing an arms deal with Soviet Russia, said that Saud had approached him through one of Saud's fathers-in-law, Syrian-born Assad Ibrahim. According to Ibrahim, said Serraj, Saud considered Nasser's union "Egyptian imperialism," and had sworn "by his father's soul that this union shall not take place." Ibrahim forthwith offered Serraj financial and moral support for the Syrian presidency if Serraj would lead a coup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.A.R.: Father Ibrahim's Plot | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...World War II, France lost its honor. During the senseless bombing of Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef, it is fast losing its soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 10, 1958 | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

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