Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Golden Demon (Daiei; Harrison). The Japanese soul has been described as a lotus bud stitched up to look like a big-league baseball. In it, the traditional Eastern longing for a spiritual flowering is crudely merged with the modern Western urge to get to first base. Golden Demon, except for Hiroshima the only postwar picture from Japan in which the U.S. moviegoer can learn anything specific about 20th century Japanese life, tells a story of how this broken culture broke two lovers' hearts...
...this point, the Holmes family took up residence in the person of the Reverend Abiel Holmes, whose father in law, Judge Wendell of the probate court, bought it for him and his recent bride. Like Eliphalet, though a gentler soul by far, the Reverend Holmes would have no Unitarian nonsense; and for this he lost his parish. During the early 1800s, the Commonwealth's churches were plagued with vicious internal schisms of this sort, and the Reverend Holmes did better than most when he took sixty parishioners with...
...brooding Roman Catholic novelist, François Mauriac (Woman of the Pharisees, Therèse) has cared for his soul-and for the souls of his fellow literati-as assiduously as Voltaire advised Frenchmen to tend their gardens. The trouble with Mauriac's theologico-literary gardening is that he cultivates the weeds of sin rather more successfully than the buds of virtue. In his tormented view of the world, good wins none but moral victories...
...lamb of The Lamb is 22-year-old Xavier Dartigelongue, a would-be seminary student. Like Dostoevsky's "idiot" Prince Myshkin, Xavier is a fool in Christ, a saint somehow leading himself to destruction. Xavier feels himself spiritually handcuffed to any human soul in need. On the train ride to the seminary, the handcuffs click when haughty Jean de Mirbel enters Xavier's compartment and reveals that he means to desert his wife...
...Then what is the idea of a perfect husband or wife for a Keie student? For a man, future wife must love her husband heart and soul. She must be a woman of good tastes. And she must be beautiful and healthy and naive at the same time...