Word: soule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lavrovsky sees in his great pupil "a body of very beautiful and tender and expressive lines" and a soul of "great content." Beyond that, he has to struggle to praise her enough. "She is a lyric-dramatic dancer," he says, searching for words. "When I speak of lyric-dramatic, I soften the contours of lyric by adding dramatic and soften the contours of dramatic by adding lyric. But in this instance I wouldn't want them softened...
...scalpel to himself without flinching. The play is as brutally candid as he could make it. Perhaps, like O'Neill, Miller felt a compulsion to offer a cathartic accounting of himself to the public. Whatever the reasons, it took an incredible amount of courage to so bare his soul before all who wish to look. Literary history contains few such revelatory items...
When sex is pursued only for pleasure, or only for gain, or even only to fill a void in society or in the soul, it becomes elusive, impersonal, ultimately disappointing. That is what Protestant Theologian Helmut Thielicke has in mind when he warns that "a dethroned god seems to be staging his comeback in a secularized world." Eros is accorded high rank today, "a rank that comes close to the deity it once had." The spiritual danger is that Eros may leave "no room for agape, which lives not by making claims but by giving...
...started to work toward "simplification and amplification" of his art, began his important projects La Montague and Dynamo Mother with a naturalistic sculpture and countless drawings. Of a work called Woman, he wrote: "As a vision sculptural, she began to move, vigorously, robustly, walking, alert, lightly, radiating sex and soul." Of La Montagne, he wrote: "Mountains neither jump nor walk, but have fertile rolling pastures, broad and soft as fecund breasts...
...times higher. Imitators flooded the art market with works that drooled more like a hungry walrus than like Pollock's. Few ever managed like Pollock to puncture what his favorite author Herman Melville called the "pasteboard mask" of visible reality, to pierce beyond the surface into the reasoning soul of men's minds...