Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are also two poems. One, fashionably devoted to the theme of postwar disillusionment, is called "Faust 1945" and reiterates the tired soldier's discovery that there's no solace for the sterile soul in drink, dames, or solace for the other, a sort of love lyric by the Advocate's new President, is called "Song," and succinctly continues the tradition of conventional obscurity which has become, one is tempted to say, a hallmark of the magazine. This particular poem is written in three four-line stanzas and makes no pretense of intellectual content. Instead, it tries to convey...
Intimations of Immortality: None ("I am content . . . that my soul . . . will dissolve into nothingness...
...trumpet call of inspiration from yesterday's commonplaces ("The [Fijian] chief who received me was a nephew of the last king and . . . was dressed in a pair of short white pants"). Moreover, though he may be forgiven for crooning in the days of his youth, "My soul seemed a stringed instrument upon which the Gods were playing a melody of despair," it is wearying, 40 years later, to hear the same theme strummed on the same wet banjo: "The moan of the wind in the [South Carolina] pine trees was like the distant singing of the colored people, singing...
...hundred years ago this week Composer Frederic Chopin died in Paris, aged 39. For the great man's funeral in the Madeleine, admission was by card only: 3,000 crowded into the chapel. Theophile Gautier wrote his epitaph: "Rest in peace, beautiful soul, noble artist! Immortality has begun for you . . ." History has confirmed Gautier. This week, on the centenary of Chopin's death, the western world honored him on a scale matched only by the plaudits he knew in his lifetime...
...were selling fast; the Cowles-owned Register & Tribune syndicate had already signed up 75 newspapers. Two other syndicates will soon distribute similar "inspirational" columns by two other bestselling religious authors. For a weekly sermon on such subjects as "The Philosophy of Pleasure" by Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen (Peace of Soul), the George Matthew Adams syndicate has lined up 25 newspapers. For the Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (A Guide to Confident Living), the Post-Hall syndicate has signed 34 newspapers...