Word: soule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anguished soul protesting against the barreness of the mechanized planned economy," was what Stalin's censors saw in the purged Ninth Symphony of Shostakovitch, he charged...
...When men derive no pleasure form their work and have no desire to put their soul into it, they work for money alone as a means to buy their pleasures and thus there is no limit to the money they want...
...been good mimics (and want to be good democrats), were busily tilting at an old American folkway: the square dance. "Caller"* at an experimental hoedown in Nagasaki was Fred Niblo, an A.M.G. director who thought that a dash of do-se-do was just the thing for the community soul...
...against any school of dancing ("I just think there's something completely ridiculous about anything that's too serious"). In one dance (called Oriental Dance by an Occidental Girl) she flips her fingers and toes and picks up a handkerchief with her teeth. But she shines in Soul in Search, satirizing the Dark Meadows dance in which Martha Graham rolls herself up in a black cloth which seems to symbolize the labyrinths of a frustrated libido. As Iva Kitchell, hopelessly mired in yards of purple muslin, thrashes about on the floor, she suddenly calls...
Nazis forbade Polish music, so Wasowski played clandestinely in basements for handfuls of Poles who risked their lives to hear Chopin's familiar polonaises and nocturnes. Says Wasowski: "I think it was then I found Chopin's soul." Once at Warsaw he watched from his window a mass execution of 23 Poles. "I saw them placed against walls-eyes bound. They calmly sang the Polish national hymn. Madness seized me. I rushed to the rickety piano which was placed in the back room, and I accompanied them. I suppose they can't have heard me, because...