Word: soule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...screenplay is less a response to its source than a careful college outline of it. There is a certain undiminishable power in the struggle between Basil Ransom (Christopher Reeve), all snaky masculine guile, and Olive Chancellor (Vanessa Redgrave), representing feminism at its most sternly ideological, for the innocent soul of Verena Tarrant. But Ivory's camera behaves like a tourist trapped meekly behind a velvet rope at a historical reconstruction, and most of his actors seem afraid they might damage the nicely chosen antiques the curator has permitted them to perch upon...
...exception is Redgrave. Icy furies move inside this Olive: hatred of men, belief in ideals, repressed lesbian longings. She offers teasing glimpses of them all, but no naked displays. This is a soul under perpetual migraine attack. And a performance one admires all the more because of the barren soil from which it springs...
...gentle reader, what have we done! What have we done, that sex, and the sacred, awful communion should have become degraded into a thing of shame, excused only by the accident of procreation, or the perversion of spiritual union. It is no spiritual union. It is the living blood-soul in each being . . . What have we done, that men and women should have so far lost themselves, and lost one another, that marriage has become a mere affair of comradeship, 'pals,' or brother-and-sister business, or spiritual unison, or prostitution...
...Baron Manners: "Say, 'Not so impetuous, Baron. Not before supper, later.'" Left equally confused by the presents of the class which he has so suddenly affected, Gaston asks for romantic counsel as well. Once again, Baron Manners: "Tell her, 'You are the one to whom I belong body and soul,' and remember 'After supper, it is easier to discuss with a woman the dessert...
...Kippur discourses, Soloveitchik explores the nature of humanity's less exalted side: sinfulness. As the Rav sees it, the intellect plays hardly any role in the soul's move from sin toward repentance, nor is the "ethical sense" very powerful. Rather, says Soloveitchik, contrition is an "aesthetic experience" of revulsion against sin's corruption...