Word: soule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accept it in the spirit in which it was given at our convention at Philadelphia - the spirit of dedication. I herewith dedicate myself with all my heart, with all my mind, and with all my soul to make this nation strong...
Dona St. Columb, though of the 17th-century English noblesse, has a soul the simplest of women will understand. Love's tide has ebbed, leaving her stranded high & dry with two children and a dim flibbertigibbet of a husband (Ralph Forbes) who seems almost to encourage his wolfish crony Lord Rockingham (Basil Rathbone) to lick his chops at her. Dona is sick of London's mad social whirl, sick, sick, as she tells her husband, of "the stupid futile life we lead here." Finally, one dawn, she packs up and flounces off with her children to their country...
Maxim Gorki had a singing phrase to describe the function of the writer-"the engineer of the human soul." During the Russian war this has certainly been true. Never before have Russian writers had such an audience. Never before have they had such immediate influence and such great responsibility. Perhaps J. B. Priestley exaggerated when he said that recent Russian writings had been "the conscience of the world," but they have unquestionably been the conscience of Russia...
...better to be without literary criticism than without victory." The only fair test is to see whether writers have fulfilled their aims. According to the chairman of the Writers' Union, their aims are, first, "to tell the truth about the war," and second, "to feel the heart and soul of the Soviet...
...glorify Russia's heroic traditions; 3) promote "Slavism" and see to it that the German enemy, which has twice hurt Russia, will never divide the Slavic peoples again; 4) memorialize German bestiality as it was revealed at Lidice and Maidenek; 5) occupy itself with human honor, conscience and soul; 6) call on Russians for a new effort of creativeness and rouse them to transfer the heroism they have shown in war to achievements in peace ; 7 ) explore England and America, whose aid in the war will not be forgotten...