Word: soulfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...M.G.M.) is an all-out Hollywood jihad to save Fay Bainter's soul for the New Deal. Cinemactress Bainter impersonates the widow of an anti-New Deal Washington newspaper publisher. She has vague resemblances to the Washington Times-Herald's Cissie Patterson, an overstuffed mansion, an illusory heart ailment, a raffish son (Richard Ney), a musical-comedy daughter (Jean Rogers) and. though the epithet is never directly hurled, there is more than a hint that the Widow Bainter is a Republican. The war against her is waged with practically everything but brass knuckles and a commando raid...
There's only one world for Frankie. Magnificent. Judging from records and personal appearances, he's easily the greatest trumpeter to play here regularly. This is no idle statement, for Red Allen, Bill Davison, Max Kaminsky, Bobby Hackett, and Hot Lips Paige are no slouches. You can call it "Soul" and flutter your eyelids. Call it "Inspiration" and swoon. More directly, Newton is closest to the soul of jazz, in his sincerity, strength, tenderness, and disregard for convention...
Nehru & Nehru. In years behind bars, Nehru has looked deeply into his own soul, has found the rationalization of loyalty for his compromises with Gandhi and the Congress party. He has found himself vain at times (his Gandhi cap habitually covers his-baldness). He has found himself loving the adoration of the crowds. He has also yearned for the mountains of Kashmir, for security and the love of his family. But these he denies himself. Last week, at the age of 52, he was still so handsome that at least six women in India were reported sending away suitors...
Robeson caught, too, much of the final Othello who stifles Desdemona' not savagely from hate, but solemnly for honor. Earlier, however, when Othello's tortured soul is seared with rage, Robeson unwisely tried to reproduce Othello's violence-which on the stage becomes grotesque-instead of finding a way to suggest...
...politics is the breath of life. But it will mean much to those who prefer to be human beings despite all politics. They may be appalled by the price. In Ignazio Silone's judgment, the price has not changed since Gospel days: he who would gain his own soul must first lose the world...