Word: soulfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buchman's methods in militant religion are superficially novel, essentially age-old. He is more genteel than Billy Sunday, more subtle than Almes MacPherson. Instead of clawing the devil before thousands in temple or arena, he carries on painless soul surgery in the well upholstered living room of the rich. Here about the fire-side boys and girls "come clean" and "make their souls feel wonderful...
...Bonnet" and to Raymond Hubbell's "Poor Butterfly," Arthur Schwartz's "Dancing in the Dark." But when Gus Edwards started "School Days" it was too much for them. They all started singing. They sang "You're My Everything" with Harry Warren, "Charmaine" with Erno Rapee, "Body & Soul" with Johnnie Green, "I'll See You Again" with Noel Coward, "My Song" with Ray Henderson, "Of Thee I Sing" with George Gershwin, "Old Man River" with Jerome Kern. Through it all little Irving Berlin was flying all over his keyboard with the most elaborate gestures. But people sitting...
...wisdom. The compassion with which he tells how Gadsby Memsahib walked through the Valley of the Shadow, and the open-minded acceptance of the metem-psychosis of Charlie Mears, are good in a modern day of sceptical worldliness. Even the Prime Minister might get a better glimpse of the soul of Mother India through the enlightenment of Pagett, M.P. But that is another story...
...closer acquaintance with the subject, lessened the complement of imagination necessary to register the whole image on canvas. He is impersonal. He catches with the eye, of the camera, and he fortifies the object with symbolism; but his symbolism is the soul emanation of the object, not the essence which the mind imposes upon it. When Rivers, the famous Mexican mural painter, draws a tractor, he does not delve into his folio for a model or into the store of his technical information for the knowledge, but relies upon his mental image, with the result that his machines though often...
...entered Harvard; at 18 he was graduated; at 30 he had lost his first wife, his faith in his clerical calling, everything but his faith in himself and Nature's Neo-Platonic Over-Soul. To prove himself, to share his thought with others, he went to Europe, saw its civilized sights, met its civilizing men. Landor, Coleridge, Wordsworth and especially Carlyle delighted him. After a year he returned to Concord knowing what...