Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letters reflect an incredible enthusiasm for forging experience in the smithy of his soul, and sense of artistic mission that seemed to tear him apart and to make him a perpetually driven and tormented man. "It just boils down to the fact that there is no rest, once the worm gets in and begins to feed upon the heart. Somewhere long ago...the worm got in and has been feeding ever since and will be feeding till I die. After this happens, a man becomes a prisoner; there are times when he almost breaks free, but there is one link...
...again, Pierce taught English at a Catholic college in Louisiana, suffered with his wife through the loss of their small son. At the college he was an "amateur among professionals, a layman among priests." Abruptly, Pierce told Cornelia of his new ambition: to be a priest. He presented his soul-rending corollary to the decision: Cornelia must become...
...latest harvest: his superb pastoral illustrations for Virgil's Eclogues (TIME COLOR PAGES, June 6, 1955). Today, at 81, the holder of nearly every award the art world has to bestow, Villon can sum up the goal he has largely achieved: "to express the perfume, the soul of things of which science only catalogues and explains the outward appearance...
Many contemporary composers, says peppery Composer David Diamond, 41, are engaged in "filling up the garbage cans of 20th century music" in "bad imitations of Igor Stravinsky." Their worst sin is writing purely "from their brains" instead of their souls. Last week Rochester-born Composer Diamond sat in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall while the result of his most recent soul-searching, his Sixth Symphony, was performed by Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It seemed at times as if Diamond was unhappily living up to his own thesis...
...second batch of stories which carry the baptism-by-life theme into young manhood are told by a nameless narrator who is serving as a seaman aboard tramp freighters. These show traces of the fogbound, soul-bedeviled yarns that Eugene O'Neill spun in his early one-acters. But what Iowa-born Author Kentfield brings to his best stories, beyond the knack for telling them well, is a front-porch vision of small-town life, talk, fears and dreams as authentic as the creak of the rocker that serves as the observation post...