Word: soule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sluggish start several holdovers of distinction still dominate the Broadway scene. The New York Drama Critics Circle's best-foreign-play prizewinner, A Man for All Seasons, probes the mind, heart and faith of Sir Thomas More, who chose to lose his life rather than his soul. Emlyn Williams portrays the hero-martyr. A Thousand Clowns, freshly and resourcefully comic, stars Jason Robards Jr. as a man who tries to grope his way out of groupthink toward the good life. Barbara Bel Geddes delivers Jean Kerr's subcutaneous witticisms with flair in long-running Mary, Mary...
There are several holdovers of quality. The New York Drama Critics Circle best foreign play prizewinner, A Man for All Seasons, probes the mind, heart and faith of Sir Thomas More, who chose to lose his life rather than his soul. Emlyn Williams portrays the hero-martyr. A Thousand Clowns, freshly and resourcefully comic, stars Jason Robards Jr. as a man who tries to grope his way out of group-think toward the good life. Barbara Bel Geddes delivers Jean Kerr's subcutaneous witticisms with flair in long-running Mary, Mary...
Poor Gigot. He is not very bright, and he is literally dumb. He seldom has a soul, but he has a heart of gold. People hoot and holler at him when he walks into a bistro-he smiles at them shyly. Children pin tails on the poor donkey-he never gets mad. But he longs to be a member of humanity, and one day he discovers the only place where he is accepted by other people: in a cemetery. After that, Gigot never misses a funeral. He stands at the graveside, shoulder to shoulder with the mourners, and weeps...
...becoming a nun. But then one day Father swept her off her feet and into a squalid succession of "dirty rooms in one-night-stand hotels.'' When the morphine came along she was desperately ready for it, and after more than 20 years of the needle her soul is as full of holes as her skin...
Eiseley, "because I have not been able to shut out wonder occasionally, when I have looked at the world. [My accuser] was unaware, in his tough laboratory attitude, that there was another world of pure reverie that is of at least equal importance to the human soul...