Word: soule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tragedy is truly ennobling, then these children are the aristocrats of the human soul. We can cry for them, feel for them, hope for them-but will we ever learn from them...
...proximity to death and the immoderation of his pain emancipate him. He undergoes psychotherapy along with chemotherapy. Because his soul is even more afflicted than his body, the analysis causes greater anguish. He is convinced that his soul must first be cured if his body is to survive. He never finds...
...ever go to India?" Wally asks. "I felt all wrong. I felt just like a tourist." And on to Scottish eccentrics and their All Soul's Day celebrations...
...Dinner With Andre might be interpreted as a grand allegory, a dialogue between the self of day to day life and the soul of wistful fantasy. Perhaps it ends too easily, bringing us back to the light and sounds of the real world. The screenplay--serious, reflective, humorous and often challenging--is most effective, playing on the two actors, more than they play their roles. But in the end, savoring My Dinner With Andre, as Wally did his, is the best course available...
...went up to Harvard almost alone, knowing hardly a soul in the University," Reed would write later. "My college class entered almost seven hundred strong, and for the first three months it seemed to me, going around to lectures and meetings, as if everyone of the seven hundred had friends but me. I was thrilled with the immensity of Harvard, its infinite opportunities, its august history and tradition, but desperately lonely." The boyish friendliness that had made Reed a celebrity at Morristown did just that at Harvard, except, this time, it might not have been the effect he desired...