Word: soulfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real Protestant feels no such need. He may use some ritual in formal worship, but does not associate with its use a guarantee of a special ministry of God. He does not require the services of a clergyman to purge his sins. The future of the soul of the dead he does not believe to be related to the use of the kind of ritual employed before or at the time of burial. The Protestant clergyman is not called into emergency situations because he is believed to possess any special ritual, or a special right to use such ritual essential...
...oldest precept of the cardsharp and the carnival grifter-"everyone has a little larceny in his heart." When he kicked Baby Le Roy, interrupted a moment of fraudulent grief to execute a moth, or eyed a sheriff with ponderous injured dignity, his audiences admitted their spottiness of soul and rejoiced...
...Aragon tries earnestly to explain that Michel's gigolory results from his being at heart a frustrated knight-errant in today's ignoble world. She redeems his calloused soul by making him die nobly in World War II. But three-fourths of The White Charger is simply a listing of Michel's tedious romantic conquests. Only the most dogged reader will remember, by the end, just what made Elisabeth different from Mary, or from Marjorie, and Riri, and Gisėle, and Irene, and Francine, and Nicole, and Mariana, and Lu-cette, and Lily-to mention only...
...highly arranged versions that Miss Anderson sings, or the finished artistry with which she sings them. But if something has been lost in freshness and authenticity, much has been gained by the assimilation of these great religious songs to the body of great music. For they are the soul of the Negro people, and she has taken that soul as far as art can take...
Birth of the Soul. The theme of the greatest music is always the birth of the soul. Words can describe, painting can suggest, but music alone enables the listener to participate, beyond conscious thought, in this act. Beethoven's Violin Concerto is a work secular beyond question. But when, in the first movement, the simple theme subtly changes, the mind is lifted and rent-not because the strings have zipped to another key, but by a tone of divinity conveyed through the composer's growing deafness by an inspiration inexplicable to the mind. The spirituals are perhaps...