Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scene is laid in Ireland and in old times," and the peasants all around are starving. Two devil-merchants come, offering gold to the poor people for their souls--which seems rather a good idea to most of the peasants, but horrifies the local patron, The Countess Cathleen. She, just returning to her estate after a many year's absence, promptly sends away for grain and cattle for the starving peasants. The devils, who see their lovely valley-full of souls slipping away, steal Cathleen's fortune of gold and tell her that her grain and cattle ships have been...
...workers. The press has also begun to educate the people on the necessity of the move. The First Secretary said to the workers when he announced his plan, "The capitalist worker will never believe that you are doing this of your own free will....They do not understand the soul of the Soviet People...
...clear that the extent of free will is difficult to determine in a country where patriotism and totalitarianism often operate together. As Khruschev notes, Western observers are far from comprehending the Slavic Soul. To many economists, though, the tactics behind Khrushchev's gigantic game of monopoly are as hard to interpret as the Russians' unanimous approval...
...magic wand, a drum major's baton. The attempt at innocent fairy-tale enchantment was sometimes harder to take: one interminable lovers' dialogue consisted of stilted inanities that sounded like a whole musicom-edy's worth of song cues laid end to end. Hammerstein, a gentle soul, also evidently felt compelled to soften the children's fable for grownups by reforming the wicked Stepmother and Stepsisters into merely pesky comic types. While making one of TV's biggest splashes and giving impetus to a cycle of fairy tales,* Cinderella also displayed the gulf that...
...make perpetual libation to failure. Day and night the staggering crowds of petes and winos, toads and loners mill about in a hundred sticks and arms and muskie stands (as the bars on Skid Row are variously described), and keep the dismal watches of the dark night of the soul. A trite and cheaply sensational subject for a movie? This film-without the pity that secretly insults, without the disgust that indirectly compliments -studies its subjects with honest human interest, tries to see what they see in their lives, tries to find what they find in the bottom...