Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feels, tend to speak of him in the past tense. "Nowadays," says Negro Bop Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, "we try to work out different rhythms and things that they didn't think about when Louis Armstrong blew. In his day all he did was play strictly from the soul-just strictly from his heart. You got to go forward and progress. We study...
...physical Cardinal Mindszenty can no longer be saved. It is the spiritual Cardinal Mindszenty in his martyrdom of mind and body that we can fortify by our prayers, that in his soul he may know that in another part of the world other men are holding high God's torch of justice . . . And in our own dear land each free man ... must protect and fight to keep his own integrity of conscience, his own God-given freedoms ... to save America and the rest of the democratic, God-loving world from trickery, torturings, disasters and defeat...
Shuffling & Jumping. It was not entirely an accident. Fast-talking Frankie Laine (real name: Frank LoVecchio) had picked himself a "safe" repertory: "Who doesn't want to hear On the Sunny Side of the Street, Body and Soul and All of Me? You can't miss with them." And he had learned to put on a show to take a bobby-soxer's heart. In the old days he sang with his eyes closed ("I couldn't bear to look at the audience"). Now he sings with his eyes wide open and swiveling in their sockets...
Under modern church law anathema is a grim ritual in which the person who has incurred the wrath of the Roman Catholic Church is excommunicated and condemned to "eternal fire with Satan" to save his soul on judgment...
...element, though. For some reason, the third act starts off with an argument between a Catholic priest and the lover, who has been reading a communist journal. The padre's academic argument (there are only six pleasures of the flesh, but what fun you can have with the immortal soul) scarcely resolves the religious-materialist conflict...