Word: soule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...modern, popular and dominant. It needs no special pleaders.... It cannot help being tempted to a certain arrogance and a conviction that the keys of truth are in its hands alone. [But] logic and reason are no monopoly of science. . . . Science regards a human being not as a soul which may be saved or lost but as an exquisitely constructed physicochemical mechanism. ... To many thoughtful minds the gains of science are secondary and superficial things...
...this point Colonel Dymshitz began to sweat. But the worst was yet to come. Lasky pitied the writers of the Soviet Union: "We know how soul-crushing it is to work and write when behind us stands a political censor and behind him stands the police. Think of how it must shatter the nerves of a Russian writer to worry constantly whether the new party doctrine or revised state formula of 'social realism' or 'formalism' or 'objectivism' . . . has already become passe and the mark only of a 'decadent counter-revolutionary tool...
...Body and Soul (Enterprise; United Artists) is a catchy but not very relevant title for a picture about prize fighting. The body is symbolized by materialistic Hazel Brooks and the soul by idealistic Lilli Palmer...
...Body and Soul is no major screen achievement, but it expertly holds a steady pitch of interest and excitement...
...afraid the Communists would kill him. Laskell thought Maxim was being unduly melodramatic, but got him a job on a liberal magazine (which sounds somewhat like the Nation, where Professor Trilling's wife is fiction critic). Laskell had a hard time staying a "liberal," but after much soul-searching he succeeded...