Word: soulful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This One Man. Marvin and Saul Holland were brothers and burglars. Marvin was weak, tender, soulful. Saul was strong, crude, tough. Marvin saw that if Saul had his characteristics he (Saul) would be an extraordinary person, more particularly a better husband to his wife. So one night when Marvin and a friend were cracking a safe, Marvin shot and killed the master of the house. Executed in the electric chair, Marvin somehow managed to transfer his soul to Saul, who thereupon became possessed not only of strength but of sensibilities...
...mother finally stirs him with a story of having seen the ghost of his innocent youth. The tempo increases. Lorenzaccio's young aunt is sacrificed to the duke's lust. An old friend is victimized. But the greatest damage has been done to Lorenzaccio's own soul. To revenge himself, he finally kills his cousin-a scene made memorable last week by the superb, cumulative performance of Vanni-Marcoux...
...when he rolls up his sleeves to polish off Mr. Shaw, the famous Irish wit is made to look like a second rate effusion of Mr. Colley Cibber. Shaw, "has the brain of a juvenile Machiavelli superposed on a crybaby, philistine, middle-class soul... His brain is a half-inch layer of champagne poured over a bucket of Methodist near-beer." All Mr. De Casseres sees in Shaw is the mountebank who jigs for money, the Barnum of the drama, and nothing else. After reading this book the Shabian bubble is pierced...
...tried to be as unprejudiced as is possible to a grandson and nephew of Confederate officers and soldiers, but I learned fairly late in life that Damyank was a compound word. What I have attempted is not a history of a war, but a portrait of a splendid human soul, expressed through the profession of arms...
...fraught with religious feeling. When he sends a greeting to a religious convention-as to the Catholics at Omaha (TIME, Sept. 29) or to the Lutherans at Milwaukee (TIME, Oct. 20) he tries hard to be noncommittal. But sometimes a President, or his aide, slips.* At once some sensitive soul cries out in anguish or anger. This happened last week. A prominent Roman Catholic flayed President Hoover for his greeting to the Lutherans, which was: Hoover to Lutherans. "I send cordial greetings to the Americans of Lutheran faith who are celebrating on October 31 the anniversary of the Protestant Reformation...