Word: soul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HOMECOMING is a totally engrossing drama. Written sparely by Harold Pinter, directed tautly by Peter Hall, performed perfectly by members of the Royal Shakespeare Company, it tickles one's humor while gnawing the instincts and scraping the soul...
Captain of His Soul. Dirksen's Gallant Men, Stories of the American Adventure, was recorded, appropriately, by Capitol. It has sold so well (around 410,000 copies) that he has declaimed a second disk, scheduled to appear about Easter time, with favorite readings from the Bible and a dramatic recital of W. E. Henley's Invictus ("I am the master of my fate/I am the captain of my soul"). Disk-and TV-wise, however, the fate of the turned-on Senator rests with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), which has politely told him that...
Living far from home and close to the bone, the aging agent has a few elemental joys: cigarettes, a glass of wine, and women-his mistress (Ingrid Thulin) and a girl (Genevieve Bujold) who believes that a man so far left must be Mr. Right. A dry, desperate soul, Diego nonetheless has a fugitive imagination as agile as an alley cat and a sixth sense of survival in a treacherous by-world of Byzantine complexity...
Living far from home and close to the bone, the aging agent has a few elemental joys: cigarettes, a glass of wine, and women - his mistress (Ingrid Thulin) and a girl (Genevieve Bujold) who believes that a man so far left must be Mr. Right. A dry, desperate soul, Diego nonetheless has a fugitive imagination as agile as an alley cat and a sixth sense of survival in a treacherous by-world of Byzantine complexity...
...makes him a moralist of a kind. But the Sartrean paradox does not altogether explain the demonic intensity and energy of Genet's writing. The source may be found in another French aphorist, Baudelaire, who said that "Everyman who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul." As a corollary, he who accepts the conditions of life-as Genet accepts the worst life can dish out-presumably finds his soul. The discovery would disconcert most men. Genet indeed suggests that he has fulfilled the Baudelairean aspiration to "inspire universal horror and disgust." Few books are so thoroughly...