Word: soule
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than Spinola's admission of that fact! If Spinola's book does achieve a measure of immortality it will gain that distinction less for the role it played in the liberation of African colonies than the insight it affords scholars to understand the metamorphosis of a colonial general's soul...
...clear now to thoughtful members of the literary apparat that a critic who praises an Iron Curtain writer does so at considerable risk to his reputation as a subtle fellow. Some variant of the skepticism now being directed at Solzhenitsyn is sure to tar the enthusiast. "A great soul, certainly," it will be said, "with great lumps on his head from those rubber truncheons, but a great writer ... ?" The message is stern: under an oppressive state, all artists may be persecuted, but not all those persecuted are artists...
...novel is a sly and merciless lampoon of revolutionary romanticism, and it deals with lyric poetry as a species of adolescent neurosis. The hero is an unpleasant young man named Jaromil, whose every childhood uncertainty has been marveled at by his crazed mother as evidence of an artistic soul. Out of resentment of her coarse husband, who hung his smelly socks on her beloved alabaster statuette of Apollo, this monstrous mother determined to make her infant son a poet...
...churchly girl. It gets him hi trouble with his atheistic school directress, whom he must thereupon seduce. Equally as good is Symposium, a pants-off bow to Plato, which follows several male doctors, a woman doctor and a nurse through a nightlong rigadoon. Everyone is feeling randy, and each soul present, though perfectly satisfied that he knows what is happening, is in fact calamitously mistaken about who wants to do what to whom...
Harvey Brooks and the Fabulous Rhinestones finish Saturday at Sandy's in Beverly on the North Shore. Brooks, the bassist who leads the fast-moving soul band, has the same name as Harvard's dean of Engineering and Applied Physics, and rumor has it they're actually the same person. Check...