Word: soule
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...Gurr's abiding gift to readers lies in his largeness of spirit. It's born of decency and courage in laying his soul bare. The cumulative effect is a gritty grace: depth of character, tenderness and the masculinity that you find in the muscular work of novelists such as Philip Roth or Richard Ford. In form and heart, with its floating chronology and candor, Gurr's memoir springs from a sensibility close to that of the late Arthur Miller in his masterly Timebends. In it, he's telling two stories. There's the public history of shared experience, a critique...
...their share of fantasy-lit icons on the big screen. Now in production: The Golden Compass, in which a young heroine played by newcomer DAKOTA BLUE RICHARDS (yes, another little blond named Dakota) journeys to a universe of flying witches, armored bears and humans living alongside their animal-shaped souls. "It's a character-driven effects movie, if there is such a thing," director Chris Weitz says of the tale from Philip Pullman's series His Dark Materials. And what plays NICOLE KIDMAN'S soul? "A very evil, vicious monkey." But, you know, an elegant, Australian species...
Still, the album does leave something to be desired. While Legend appears to have mastered the art of soul and by mixing a classic style with modern influences, it seems that he does so by template; there’s not much variety to the songs here. Even though each song sounds great on its own, after a few listens many of the songs begin to sound a bit too similar...
...Directed by Ryan Murphy Sony Pictures Entertainment After leaving “Running with Scissors,” I called my mother to tell her I loved her—after you see what Augusten Burroughs endured during his upbringing, you’d have to be without a soul to not react the same way. This is the power of the directorial debut of Ryan Murphy, best known as the creator of the groundbreaking television series “Nip/Tuck,” an adaptation of Augusten Burroughs’ bestseller. Newcomer Joseph Cross takes his first leading role...
...that’s almost 100 years in the (re-)making.LEARNING BY DOINGWhile the new proposal explicitly references the influence of interim University President Derek C. Bok’s “Our Underachieving Colleges” and 2006’s “Excellence Without A Soul: How A Great University Forgot Education”—an expose by former dean of the College and Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis ’68—the report also echoes the pragmatic educational ideals that John Dewey sought at the turn...