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Word: soulful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Little of that glow shines through the present production. Critic Stark Young's new acting version is natural and charming, but last week's performance showed only a series of moods-that time-honored way of passing the buck about the dark, difficult Russian soul. Actor Lunt performed admirably as Trigorin, Actress Fontanne badly as Irina. She made the Russian woman a ham actress in a farce, displayed a rather alarming affinity for the role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Old Play and New | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

JOURNEY TO THE WEST-Darwin L. Teilhet-Doubleday, Doran ($2.75). Picaresque, 593-page novel about a high-pressure, radical Manhattan adman, stranded in Seattle, who gets entangled with quacks, radical slickers and adventuresses, in a gory, last-scene fight saves his soul and his future father-in-law's brewery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Apr. 11, 1938 | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...decided not to wait and was trying to get out was still imprisoned in the elevator. The student found that out when he craftily pulled open the door as the elevator went down past the second floor, to find this professor at violent odds with the other innocent soul who had given him his round trip. There followed a united front of black looks directed against the new intruder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overset | 3/29/1938 | See Source »

...brutal pagans whose object is subjugation of Christian Austria. In speaking of Germans apart from Nazis, Christian Kurt von Schuschnigg up to a few weeks ago was still repeating, "We are good Germans, but always true Austrians!"-for the average Austrian thinks of himself as "German" in blood and soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Austria Is Finished | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...modern era of Materialism most men believe that the individual life ceases with death; to them Immortality is something that exists apart from the single mind. It was the Industrial Revolution which crystallized the middle-class notion that Work is greater than the Soul and caused the forgetting of personal Immortality. The purpose of Work is to improve the world for posterity; the modern way of life is the identification of self with the Work of the world. The unity of work transcends in importance the labor of the individual. Thus in this period the person cannot become eternal; only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/16/1938 | See Source »

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