Word: soule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...admits that describing vileness "with words that usually designate what is noble was perhaps childish and somewhat facile." In such a way, being allowed to see that such honest admission of fraud is itself fraudulent, the reader is led through the shallows of Genet's soul. "I keep no place in my heart where the feeling of my innocence might take shelter," he writes at one point, seeming oddly innocent...
...through to me would be like adequately describing one's sensations when high on drugs to someone who's straight. When Allens tells you of his visitation from Blake, or proclaims, "I have seen God; I saw him in a room in Harlem," he is high on his own soul. You, you passionless bourgeois, you're straight. Can you think of a better place in this shell-shocked...
Thanksgiving was created by naive men for an ingenuous age, when the saga of the Pilgrims could still awaken a poignant inspiration in the nation's soul. In 1863, the year the holiday was first observed by proclamation of President Lincoln, the Plymouth adventure still symbolized the courage and idealism of a young America. The country responded to the charming religious faith of William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth, who wrote...
...leap. Up comes natty Milt Manville (Eli Wallach), who recognizes him as a onetime classmate at Poly-Arts U. They swap case histories. Harry tells a tale of existential woe that started when a fox terrier mistook his pant leg for a hydrant: "I was nauseous, sick to my soul, I became aware . . . aware of the whole rotten senseless stinking deal." Mimed in outrageously funny fashion by Alan Arkin, Harry is so sick that he goes momentarily rigid with paralysis and then turns deaf, blind and mute. Milt prates of the good things in life, but he, too, is gnawed...
...announced not only the end of the nineteenth century but also the breakdown of Western Christendom. Thirty-four years later, suffering from the heart condition that would end his life, he wrote to his son: "Could it be...that my pains are still connected to the injuries of the soul I suffered during...