Word: soule
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There is in James Baldwin's work the most grueling, agonizing, total hatred of blacks, particularly of himself, and the most shameful, fanatical, fawning, sycophantic love of whites that one can find in the writings of any black American writer of note in our time." --Eldridge Cleaver from Soul...
...subtly discredited in many circles as oafish and destructive. The heritage of the Enlightenment (the scientific method, progress, that dreamy Jeffersonian clarity of mind that told us all problems could be solved) now seemed drawn into a darker business. D.H. Lawrence once wrote that the essential American soul was "hard, stoic, isolate, and a killer...
...troubled, divided soul that French Director Louis Malle (The Lovers, Murmur of the Heart) uncovers in Alamo Bay. The script is based on a conflict that exploded in the late '70s on the Texas Gulf Coast. In the film town of Port Alamo, "Anglo" shrimp fishermen battle the current, the depressed prices and the influx of Vietnamese refugees plying an old trade in a new land. Shang (Ed Harris) is one such rowdy all-American, working his ancestral fishing grounds and feeling threatened by the Asians he fought to defend a world and a war ago. Dinh (Ho Nguyen...
Within this intrepid travelogue lies the soul of Monty Python. The setting is the third largest island in the world, a fetid, fiercely overgrown jungle seething with carnivorous fauna and suspicious tribes. The protagonists are two British greenhorns with minimal survival skills. Poet James Fenton, 35, likes to spend his spare time reading the poems of Swift in a canoe. Narrator Redmond O'Hanlon, 37, is a literary naturalist who admits before embarking on the 1983 expedition, "The nearest I had ever come to a tropical rain-forest, after all, was in the Bodleian Library." Actually, he edges...
Celebrities by definition have to be famous. Nothing says they have to be liked, and Richard Schickel's appraisal of fame is anything but a fan's notes. This is, he confesses at the outset, "a single-issue book," and the issue is the battle for the soul of a culture seduced and battered by machinery that puts image before substance and claims before creativity...