Word: soule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FIDDLER ON THE ROOF strays a world away from Broadway to capture the happiness and the hurt, the folkish airs and graces of a small Jewish community in a Russian town in 1905. Zero Mostel, an intuitive and masterly recorder of the mind's merriment and the soul's grief, gives this musical an unfaltering heartbeat. A male wedding dance with empty wine bottles perched in men's hats is a tingling high spot...
ZORBA THE GREEK. The heart and soul of Nikos Kazantzakis' novel are brought roaringly to life by Anthony Quinn, as the wicked old brute who teaches a timid essayist (Alan Bates) to put away his books and plunge into real trouble...
...SOUL OF WOOD, by Jakov Lind. The author, whose Austrian Jewish parents were killed by the Nazis, picks relentlessly at the fabric of guilt and complicity that made all humanity an accessory to Germany's crimes. Lind has a mocking, graceful wit that is both casual and lethal...
...Harsh Fact. Lyndon Johnson fairly swept his audience along, drew his first applause when he quoted Matthew: "For, with a country as with a person, 'What is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?' " The emotion took hold; the Texas twang rose and billowed. He smiled beatifically, sighed sarcastically, frowned fiercely: he pursed his lips, jerked his thumb, clenched his fists, reasoned, cajoled, commanded. No section of the U.S.. said Johnson, should "look with prideful righteousness on the troubles in another section," for "there is no Negro problem. There...
...lived hard and wants badly to share his life. Though he is conscious of the effects of age, few of his listeners ever are, and a second-grade teacher probably seldom gets the adoring attention he manages to command. Pointing a finger accusingly or tenderly, staring with his soul, he speaks with a voice that could develop only from the harried heckled experience of Socialist Party campaigns from 1928 through 1948. Chuckling he reminisces about the exploits of one after another of his "old friends" in politics--from Eugene V. Debs to Hucy Long to Hubert Humphrey...