Word: soulful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rhythmic effects missing from the run of ambitious jazz, which nowadays seems all dressed up with no place to go. Two parts at least-the melody given to the lovers and the strident "Dance on a Dime"-should make song hits as rich as Johnny Green's "Body & Soul," which Torchsinger Libby Holman made famous...
Plato says that education is the turning of the entire soul to the good. This conception seems to lead us into the perilous territory of edification, where even angels should fear to tread. William James is on much safer ground when he says that an educated person is one who can tell a good man when he sees him. Education helps character to the extent that it builds up a critical faculty which can see the good from the bad. * * * (The educated man) is intellectually honest; he is conscious of what he has and of what...
...Manhattan Nicholas Murray Butler named a committee of 17, mostly college professors, to investigate the economic crisis, recommend solutions. Included were Walter Lippmann, George Soulé, Edmund...
Island of Lost Souls (Paramount) offers to connoisseurs of acting an opportunity to observe Charles Laughton in the role of a depraved physician who sets up a physiological research station on a remote Pacific isle and comes to a bad end at the claws of a crew of extras made up to resemble subhumans. If the principal role in this garish adaptation of H. G. Wells's Island of Doctor Moreau had been entrusted to some one else, it might very well have emerged as a routine nightmare, notable mainly for the presence of Paramount's highly publicized...
...wishes of both families he ran away with Iseult, niece of famed, beauteous Patriot Maud Gonne MacBride, whose husband had been executed in the 1916 rising. Now he lives in Glendalough (Dublin suburb), flies a plane, raises chickens, tries to find in his writing a harmony for the Irish soul. Backed by William Butler Yeats and George Bernard Shaw, he has just been nominated to membership in the new Irish Academy of Letters. Other books: Pigeon Irish, We Have Kept the Faith (verse, given a prize by the Royal Irish Academy...