Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only genuine contribution to contemporary music that America can boast of. Our jazz masters are the world's finest, which is more than I can say for our "serious" composers. Bebop is a tremendous thing-it must be heard with the brain and felt with the soul; it packs as much emotional intensity as any symphony...
Indeed this fight is one for men's minds and the effort must be made by ideas which appeal to the aspiration of men's soul. Too many people here have not the slightest idea what they should aim at, how high a standard of living a real democracy can bring...
...strong enough to poison his love, but not as strong as the love itself. The young wife (Lisbeth Movin) is in the worst predicament of the three; though she suffers agonies of desire, neither conscience nor pity can touch her. The others are merely damaged; she is a lost soul, dying before the spectators' eyes...
...collection after class "like a miserable, grubbing clerk." He still snarls at his students ("They haven't even heard about God"), but he likes to invite the "kids" around for long talks after supper. To him, his is the happiest profession. "If I had ten migrations of the soul," says he, "I'd want to be nothing more than a teacher...
...spite of some minor implausibilities, The Iron Curtain is a scrupulous and restrained movie, as well as a persuasive and exciting one. Under William Wellman's taut direction, it catches something of the soul-freezing discipline and mutual mistrust which must be the normal climate for totalitarian operations; something, too, of the way ardent amateurs in "front" groups are exploited. And near the end, when Gouzenko is trying hopelessly to find a Canadian who will listen to his story while the pursuers close in, the suspense is really awful...