Word: soule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...honest man and my soul...
...problem was Mama's bank account and not Mama's need for love. And there was a time (Come Back Little Sheba, Picnic, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs) when Bill Inge may have had the little lamp of truth and sincerity flickering in his now-prosperous soul. But the main light that shines out of Family Things - Etc., on the Cape this week for a pre-New York showing, is the colored neon kind gleaming from Times Square and promising a Broadway package of success, a chance to see your favorite performers and hear a few clever...
...young Adams confides the barriers to these cool calculations, and again dutifully transcribes them in his diary. The problem is a girl-Hannah Quincy of Braintree, to whom he gives the poetic name of Orlinda. He dreams of her in "a scene which seems to be grappled to my soul with Hooks of Steal, as immoveably as I wish to grapple in my Arms the Nimph who gives it all its ornaments. If I look upon a Law Book and labor to exert all my attention, my Eyes tis true are on the Book, but Imagination...
...that Dante was indeed a titanic personality and that La Commedia is a masterpiece: a colossal but exquisite crystal in which the total experience of human being is reconstituted in radiance. At one level, La Commedia is a spiritual autobiography; at another, a parable of the progress of the soul; at a third, one of the noblest love stories ever told. Incidentally it is a manual of mysticism and an encyclopedia of Greek, Hebrew, Arabic and Scholastic learning. Fundamentally it is both a fearful reprise of Apocalypse and the gospel of a rising religion of individuality that still moves...
...squeak, squitter, screech like a sackful of demented imps. And the structure of the entire poem is a miracle of symmetry; all its canticles are consciously articulated in a great Golden Section, an ancient system of proportion in which the nature of God and the structure of the human soul are reconciled...