Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actors and for the audience. On the surface to be sure, it appears quite simple--a man and two women meet in one room and spend about an hour talking to each other. But the room is in hell, and in their conversation each of them slowly bares his soul. The play has no further plot than this process of self-discovery, and it might be boring if, in revealing the evil of his characters, Sartre did not manage to make statements on a great number of subjects ranging from love to death to the quality of human courage...
...grown man, the sergeant still mistakes the life of the flesh for the death of the soul. He carries his fanaticism as a scared child carries a candle in the dark, and so his whole world is filled with a black monster which he calls the Devil, because he cannot see that it is really his own shadow. Since it is wartime, the shadow falls readily on his German enemies, and he slaughters them with the righteous wrath of an avenging angel...
...this tortured soul, two buddies (Wendell Corey and Mickey Rooney) play what turns out to be a disastrously impractical joke. On a four-day pass, they bribe a pretty little Italian whore (Nicole Maurey) to teach "The Preacher" about the birds and the bees. She asks him to her room. He does not realize what she is suggesting. Like many people who suffer guilt in imagination, he is pathetically innocent in real life. She takes him on a picnic instead. He drinks buttermilk while she drinks vino, shyly confesses that she is the first girl he ever took...
...Then in general, the classes of things concerned with the care of the body have less of truth and real being than the classes of things concerned with the care of the soul...
...shall give him the ability and intelligence to know a good life from a bad, and to choose always and everywhere the best that the conditions allow; . . . one who shall teach him how thus to know what beauty mingled with poverty or riches, in union with what state of soul, will work evil or good; what will be the effect of high birth or low birth, private station or governing station, strength or weakness, cleverness or dullness in learning, and all such qualities of the soul natural or acquired-what effects they will have when commingled together; so that...