Word: soulfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sits down to await instruction. After a few minutes the section leader gives a brief outline of the course, says when the first paper is due and falls silent. Five, sometimes even ten minutes, pass before the silence is broken. Finally, some brave soul takes the first step toward forming the norms for the group's behavior: "My name is Tom." The machinery of anxiety has launched the group into a series of tense analytic and soul-searching sessions which will leave them unsatisfied, but feeling that they have learned an enormous amount about themselves and interpersonal dynamics...
...16th century saint, had poetic visions of "pure water running over crystal, the sun reflecting it and striking through it." Simone Weil, the lonely Jewish girl who turned into a Christian mystic, tells how the recitation of lines by George Herbert, such as, "Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back," acted on her intuitive unconscious like prayer. "Then it hap pened," she recalled. "Christ himself came down, and he took...
Wine & Winqs. George deserts Nellie and the workers' cause by taking a job in Europe as some sort of bureaucrat and acquiring a taste in wine and tailor-made clothes. Nellie declines in her London lodgings, where she takes to crooning about her soul ("Oh me great black and rosy wings!"), and where from time to time, naked women dance in the rear of the premises. George, serves him right, is killed in a skiing accident. Nellie is last seen entering a mysterious house that shelters some cult in search of the "Unknowable...
...borrowed from Islam or Hinduism. But in their temples, which nonbelievers are forbidden to enter, the Parsis still worship fire, which was Zoroaster's chosen symbol of divine power. At their marriage feasts, wedded couples ceremoniously sip bull's urine because it allegedly purifies both body and soul...
...Barry Sullivan), his wife's father (Lloyd Nolan), a former mistress (Janet Leigh), and his own conscience. The few amusing moments are provided by Actor Whitman, a young man with a large chest and a small talent who apparently intends to portray Modern Man in Search of a Soul, but actually looks like a beach boy stumbling around in search of a lost volleyball...