Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story of Mississippians who refused to secede from the Union, holed up in a valley, and stuck by their guns until the guns were shot out of their hands. Another angle fully as novel to moviegoers is the Handsome Confederate Officer (Whitfield Connor). Not only is he not the soul of gallantry & honuh; he has the soul of a razorback...
...have been made into profitable and pulse-racing movies. But, unlike other thrillers of the gut & gat school, his "entertainments," as he calls them (in contrast to his serious novels), are not just brisk episodes of irrelevant evil. They are haunted by a problem-the plight of the human soul benighted in the back alleys of evil. For in the thriller, Graham Greene has found a literary form capable of embodying not only the violence that characterizes modern life, but the insidious violence of the modern soul from which it springs...
...Father White wonders whether God may not sometimes use the couch as well as the confessional to save a soul: "While man is limited to the appointed channels of grace and forgiveness, God is not so limited; and there seems to be no foregone reason why the theologian can deny to dream-symbolism the . . . efficacy he must allow to the sacraments . . . or - it may be added - the dream symbols of the Scriptures. Though little can be affirmed or denied with certainty, the resemblances are sometimes too impressive to be totally ignored...
...Part I of the longest poem in Jeffers' new book, a boy killed on a Pacific beachhead furiously reassumes his corpse ("I poured my soul with sickening pain into my body again") and returns to a California ranch, there to terrify his patriotic father and adulterous mother, taunting them with blasphemies, cursing the war they sent him to, trying to make horrible love to her, and eventually killing his father and his mother's lover. The force of this poem comes from the suggestion that a soldier foully killed in the insane violence of modern combat would retain...
Cried little (5 ft.) Right-Wing Leader Giuseppe Romka: "We have become just the boot cleaners of the Commtinists who -if the truth were known-are highly amused with our efforts to discover our soul." A voice from a back row broke in: "Not one soul, but three...