Word: soule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some real names are out of character. Roy Rogers was Leonard Slye. Boris Karloff could not have frightened a soul as William Henry Pratt. Gypsy Rose Lee has done things that Rose Louise Hovick would presumably never do. Other real names seem to be struggling to express themselves. Merry Mickey Rooney was once Joe Yule Jr. Sam Goldwyn was Sam Goldfish. Shelley Winters was Shirley Schrift. Lili St. Cyr was Marie van Shaack. Diana Dors was Diana Fluck...
Decrying the speed of modern education in general, Finley noted a student can fly to Harvard from California in four hours, but that the "soul comes in later like a beagle." All in all, these conflicting pressures make "Harvard complete chaos," Finley affirmed...
...given different names. Clearly they are different ages of a fabricated Updike, the kind of plastic twin brother that Proustians invent when they want to probe their own insides without disturbing the machinery. The trouble is that Author Updike does not really seem interested in exploring time and soul, but merely in finding some minimal core to be crusted with his magnificent words. This dedicated 29-year-old man of letters says very little, and says it very well...
...violent melodramas, which only succeed because of the violence of the time we live in." Williams' younger brother, Dakin, an amiable East St. Louis attorney and a convert to Roman Catholicism, drops broad hints in person and in print as to how Tennessee can achieve peace of soul. Says Tennessee amusedly: "If it would make him happy, I would have a deathbed conversion. It might help to distract...
MORNING IN ANTIBES, by John Knowles (186 pp.; Macmlllon; $3.95). John Knowles's second novel might seem more nearly satisfactory if his first, A Separate Peace, had not been flawless. His gaze at the soul's dark places is still direct, but in the shadows of the present novel, about the beach lizards of the French Riviera, there is both far less and far more than meets...