Word: soulfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Experts could tell when the soul could stand no more. They gave a signal. Everyone shouted "Xogn, xogn." Then the soul was in heaven and harmless...
...face a Russia . . . [whose] leaders are conditioned in a philosophy which rejects as silly our Christian emphasis on the supreme importance of the individual soul and which looks with contempt on our scruples about the means to achieve a doctrinaire purpose. . . . The atomoic bomb, serious as it is, does not change the . . . profoundly difficult problem of how to live with international neighbors with whom we disagree violently...
...sobriety or intelligence. Three literary autobiographies rated notice: Communist Playwright Sean 0'Casey's Drums under the Window, which stirred personalities, poetry and politics into a uniquely Irish stew; Liberal Franz Schoenberner's Confessions of a European Intellectual, which touched more gaily than profoundly on the soul of European man; Tory Poet-Essayist Osbert SitwelPs The Scarlet Tree, which drew pay-dirt from the inexhaustible lode of English aristocratic peculiarities...
...weight, but not the distinction, of a Percheron. Upton Sinclair's A World to Win did no more than mark another 600-odd pages in the improbable progress of Hero Lanny Budd. William Saroyan's The Adventures of Wesley Jackson presented a moist and flaccid soul behind a bold front. Pearl Buck's Pavilion of Women was not of great price...
...years as a marine, is the introspective young man who returns from World War I full of questions about the spiritual meaning of life. Rather than marry Miss Tierney and settle down to bond-selling in the fleshpots of Chicago, he runs off to Paris to examine his troubled soul. Miss Tierney, plainly a non-spiritual type, sullenly marries wealthy John Payne and has a couple of daughters, but still yearns for Tyrone...