Word: soule
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gauguin, great soul, Holy Barbarian...
CLIENT RCA had problems with people. It was tightly bossed by prideful, brilliant David Sarnoff, who did better at creating products than marketing them. Its scientists performed better than its managers. When Burns arrived on the scene, RCA brass bared the corporate soul and accounting books. Burns worked up 100 monumental reports suggesting changes in RCA. To launch RCA in TV, Burns advised its National Broadcasting Co. to spend freely on a few outstanding shows and fill the other hours with low-budget shows; it proved to be NBC's success formula, set the pattern for other networks...
...climax, when he is persuaded to play the clown in Lola Lola's revue before an audience of old school cronies. Jurgens penetrates rare emotional depths. Crowing like a crazed cock as one raw egg after another is broken over his bald pate, he personifies the soul-destroying humiliation that is the inexorable companion of unbridled desire...
...Author Sitwell starts with a crippling handicap when he admits: "One of my deficiencies is that I am not at all religious; and if the truth must be known, Christian neither by instinct nor inclination." At times along Journey's route, Sitwell leans toward the hope that a soul does exist, but he can never be sure who-if anyone-has one. He is certain that dogs do not have souls, and it is thinkable that God might have been hatched from an egg. As for man: "It might be that nature never intended us to have a soul...
...plane, part way on a craft called the Ship of Fools, he makes a voyage calculated to charm those who share a measure of Sitwell's vast reading, just as it will surely bore those who want to get on with the business of man's soul...