Word: soule
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...though that would settle Ferdinand's hash. But he came through, with wounds, decorations and a reputation among radicals because he had refused to execute three soldiers. In the turmoil that rocked Vienna after the War Ferdinand moved as a kind of passive Bohemian, passive revolutionary. A monastic soul, he lived among orgiasts and was never shaken; love failed to touch him. His best and only friend, a Jew, became a religious maniac and graduated to an asylum. When Ferdinand went to see Nurse Barbara for the last time he was horrified that she should...
...most incisive criticism, of all those of Shakespeare, was most attractive to Coleridge. The present editor has put it very succinctly when he writes of Coleridge's diagnosis of the prince's irresolution: "In his own excess of thought over action he found the key to Hamlet's soul." And when he falls short of his customary excellence as a critic, as indeed he does in his estimate of Falstaff, the reason is still the same, that which his own nature lacked, in this case a real sense of humour...
...active disbeliever in capitalist economics, Steffens is skeptical of them; thinks not only that business controls government but that politicians are venal by profession. His journalism might be said to have been more revelatory than reformist. His (implicit) advice: find the facts, clear your soul of cant...
...deep needs of today. Our modern art is all obviously, irremediably minor. And it must necessarily be minor, so long as its aim is to be art. There is. and always will be, a place for minor art; but to produce it is not the function of a major soul. Lawrence was a major soul...
...Author, John Middleton Murry, minor soul, has one claim to fame: he was the husband of the late Katherine Mansfield. Two years before her death in 1923, Murry left his job as editor of the London Nation & Athenaeum; later started a monthly magazine of his own, the Adelphi. In Son of Woman he says he founded the Adelphi purely as a vehicle for Lawrence, and expected that Lawrence would come back to England to edit it. One of the most unpopular literary men in England, Murry was the original of the cruelly pilloried Editor Burlap in Aldous Leonard Huxley...