Word: soule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theatergoers in Manhattan who saw Olivier as Oedipus last spring knew that he had most of the makings and many of the accomplishments of a great tragic actor. Yet it was still possible to wonder whether he had quite the size of soul and voice and presence to wring the grandest roles dry. If London's generally reliable critics were to be trusted, such doubts were no longer possible. Seldom in a decade has the London Times talked like this...
Charles Jackson's first novel, The Lost Weekend, was the story of five days in the life of a lost soul, Don Birnam, a confirmed and hopeless alcoholic unable to save himself or see any way to be saved. It was a study in acknowledged disorder. The Fall of Valor, Jackson's second book, is a study in the revelation of disorder. The story follows a conventionally successful man, John Grandin, through the crucial weeks of his life, when his long-growing sense that something is wrong gives way to the shock of realizing that...
...Faustus" is the oft-used tale of the towered scholar, who, for want of lascivious pleasure and hedonistic satiety, sells his soul to the Devil. As written, the irony to the play lies in Faustus' remaining in character and using his newly-bought power for intellectual purpose, despite the sensual opportunities offered. For the sake of "theatre," the Tributary group has avoided the aspect of introspection into character, and has played the vehicle for its spectacle. But in Elizabethan drama, interpretations are innumerable, and last night's offering was effectively valid...
...that ten to 15 million Russians are in Soviet jails, forced labor camps or exile. For the leaders of the Soviet Government are possessed by fanatical dogmas which they mean to make live at all costs. And the patient Russian people, who merely want to live, are possessed body & soul by their Government. The struggle between them, however hidden, is ceaseless. Purges indicate not its end but its persistence...
...single undergraduate, representing 90 percent of the College and more than 40 percent of the University, will be a relatively carefree soul--after he is moved from his public berth in the Indoor Athletic Building, after he is told that he doesn't have to commute if he doesn't want to, and even though he may have to sweat out a breakfast chow line...