Word: soul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then Chambers' mother-in-law, Mme. Rene, his wife, and his daughter Conny become succubi--a group of seductive demons who have usurped the place of a weakening Deity. Mary is a priestess, and Jay Samson, another law student who is living in the house, is a lost soul who has surrendered to evil. Jean Rene, Mme. Rene's husband, is an old soldier who detests Chambers' (or God's) aversion to violence. Now we have every character in the play crammed into a neat, symbolic, gift-wrapped package, with Wake's last words as a decorative bow: "Where...
...murdered child, seduces the sadistic Joseph, promises to marry him, turns him over to the gendarmes with some show of regret, and finally marries the boor next door. Miraculously, Actress Moreau performs a contradictory role with an air of wry and knowing detachment, as if she were privy to soul-deep secrets that even the best directors can only guess...
...SOUL OF WOOD by Jakov Lind. 190 pages. Grove...
Blaine represents fatuity where sophistication and sincerity should reign. There is a moral crisis on this and many other campuses. Much painful and complicated soul searching is going on. If the Chief of the Harvard Psychiatric Service had sufficient command of contemporary philosophy, sufficient understanding of the Freudianism he popularizes so crudely, he might serve as a legitimate preceptor for this community. Instead he spouts mindless cliches, offers frightened and frightening prescriptions, and debases an issue which is far more profound and serious than the good doctor, I fear, will ever realize...
...what this place looks like today.' " Shaw may think he is on Long Island, but this seems doubtful; he has spent the past several years living a comfortable expatriate life in Klosters, a Swiss ski resort. Of course Shaw may have been talking about the geography of the soul, but there is nothing of the inner eye's witness in his novel about Federov. His writing once had this quality; it no longer does, and the loss is severe...