Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glare of the diplomatic spotlight, Syria played out the painful role of a nation no longer in command of its own soul. The lines which Syria's statesmen mouthed were delivered in Arabic, but the script had clearly been written in Russia...
Fallen Figures. In most of the stories there is no either-or solution but only a questioning maybe. God is ambivalent, man contorted both in soul and action, and evil often wears the face of good. Thus, in Copenhagen Season, the very strength of a soldier's love loses him the prize he wants; in A Country Tale, a proud nobleman is forced to his knees at the foot of a murderer who mysteriously may be his alter ego; in Echoes, a prima donna finds her lost voice only to lose all hope of using it. The characters...
...Soul of a Soulless City," Painter C. R. W. Nevinson called it -predeceased McNulty by a few months. John McNulty himself would never have gone on in Nevinson's excitable fashion about a segment of New York's rapid-transit system, but in a subtle, simple way -by drinking, thinking and writing on the avenue-he made the caption come true. This excellent selection of his stories, articles and miscellaneous pieces proves that a man can find wisdom as well as booze in a gin mill...
...personality seem so different from Thomas's; he lacks that sense of bitterness and pain that makes one feel that not only was Thomas bitingly ironic about the world, but also critical of his criticism of it. Thomas's readings transmitted the presence of a naked and passionate soul which Mr. Williams cannot hope to convey. Williams as entertainer seems to over-ride Thomas as poet, and thus in comparison the reading seemed a trifle gutless--sometimes straining for a laugh that would be better left a snicker. Thomas's vignettes gained force as the performance wore on and Williams...
...Gerald Kelly, 78, painter and past president of Britain's Royal Academy, is a salty soul who once sat before the microphones of the BBC and described a Rembrandt self-portrait as "a bloody work of genius" and abstract art as "a kind of measles." Last week Sir Gerald pulled off a bloody triumph of his own. Up on the walls of the Royal Academy's galleries were 291 of his works in a special one-man exhibition, the fourth in the academy's history to be given a living artist. Included was a large...