Word: soulfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plaster, the colors of linoleum, the awful caprice of electrical fixtures, and the ebb and flow of cruel plumbing. He sniffs the eternal odors of poverty, sin and despair on stairway, landing and daybed. The flaking walls about his creatures are a barometer of the damp weather in the soul. His theme is the pursuit of grace among the abounding roaches...
...merely unendingly pretentious. Its action scenes are written in grunting prose that is supposed to be tough but instead is only sweaty, and its largo passages are flaccid with maundering soliloquies of the hero, a professor of literature who is awakening gummy-eyed from a dark night of the soul. Baker never writes a noun without leashing a seeing-eye adjective to it, never overlooks a cliché, never fails to labor an image ("The windshield wiper describing its captive arc back and forth, back and forth, like that descending knife in the story of the pit and the pendulum...
...National Assembly, immediately began a campaign to upgrade the status of Vietnamese women, who had no legal rights and could be dis carded by husbands at will. In these circumstances, said Mme. Nhu, a Vietnamese woman was "an eternal minor, an unpaid servant, a doll without a soul." In 1958 she rammed through the Assembly her controversial Family Bill, which made adultery a prison offense and outlawed polygamy, concubinage, and?except by special presidential dispensation?divorce...
...party as a "Salvation Army which took to its heels on the day of judgment." What he felt for many of them, especially the office-hungry respectable bureaucrats of the trades unions, was nothing but a fine, aristocratic disdain. He raged not only against Baldwin and Chamberlain ("that dusty soul") but also against men who should have been his own comrades, like Trades Union Chief Sir Walter Citrine. He "suffers from files," Bevan said contemptuously...
While emotionally powerful, The Link has some other difficulties. It is at times too much a tortured cry from a tortured soul, and at the other points it drifts aimlessly in indecision, not sure of its judgment or conclusion. Further, it is rather long for a one act play, and has many of the usual problems of a courtroom setting...