Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrestled with his soul. The story around Washington was that he went to his old boss, George Marshall, about three months ago. The pressure for his candidacy had built up until it was almost irresistible. Ike felt that he would have to accept the call. But to the rigid and uncompromising Marshall, such an act on the part of a fellow Army officer would be a deed of disloyalty to their commander in chief, Harry Truman-who also wanted the job. Ike thought it over for 24 hours and went in to see the President through a side door...
...Discover Our Soul." Against their democratic and humanitarian convictions, the majority of the party had followed cynical Pietro Nenni into a common front with the Communists. Only thus, they argued, could Socialism attain victory. In this bargain the party lost its soul and never collected its price. It was defeated roundly in the April elections. What to do now? Repudiate the Red alliance? Stick to it and shake off the moderate Socialists...
...argument and you lose a soul. When a discussion becomes purely dialectical, we lose the purpose of instructions...
Peristaltic Revulsion. In one degree or another, much of his work is an expression of loathing-a peristaltic revulsion of the soul. Waugh grasps at all outward forms-rank, ceremonies, cuisine, evocations of the architecture of once lovely and stately houses-to arrest the effortless slide of the old world into the muck of modernity. Brideshead is such an evocation...
Sidelights & Silences. If Miss Simmons had gone along quietly to Bristol, she could doubtless continue to call her soul-and even her toenails-her own. She might even, in time, become such an artist as Olivier is today. The most moving and gratifying thing in this film is to watch this talented artist, in the prime of his accomplishment, work at one of the most wonderful roles ever written...