Word: soulfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Transmigration of the Coward Soul...
...sick boy stirred. His eyes opened briefly, then, heavy-lidded, fell shut again. It seemed he tried to speak. 'He restoreth my soul,' the chaplain continued slowly. 'He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake...
...that of the slavey; and talented Dorothy McGuire runs the whole gamut. If she looks even lovelier, at moments, as the slavey's bluntfaced self-rather like Maude Adams, in fact-than as Robert Young's extensive improvement on the original, that is only because a gentle soul shines brighter than anything the Max Factory can contrive. Robert Young, as the disfigured veteran, combines his genuine manliness and sympathy with stylized sentimentality in perfect proportions; and Makeup Artist Maurice Stedman helps him give his uglier moments a pathos at once living and restrained. Herbert Marshall as the blind...
...alone. A wartime schizophrenia has touched all U.S. magazines trading in fiction and frills. And last week, in the April Harper's, Poet-Anthologist Oscar Williams culled from his correspondence with poets a summary of the wartime writer's dilemma-"a kind of Gallup poll of the soul." No writer was particularly happy in his work. Samples of unease...
...respects just the sort of smoothly routine, over-contrived comedy that Colbert and MacMurray team so crisply in. Yet its artificial flowers turn out also to be a nest for some surprisingly virulent vipers; and much of their venom is good for what's wrong with the American soul...