Word: soulfulness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Name of History. One who knew him intimately then says: "Till this moment, Togliatti would not have accepted too rigid dictation from Moscow. Now he began losing all such scruples." Later, the soul of Palmiro Togliatti plunged into a crisis that was to test, once & for all, its true nature. From Moscow came a simple order: Italian Socialists, though they risked their lives to fight Fascism, were "sabotaging" world revolution and must be liquidated; the Communists must deliver the secret roster of Socialist leaders to the Fascist police...
...feet wet." Some mornings when they don't show up on time, Jim will call union headquarters. "What's wrong?" he'll say. "Are the boys ill?" Jim can never forget how the tuberculosis took Jim Ryan, his favorite picket of them all, God rest his soul...
...crime he is dying for. But wholesale murder is condoned by the state. "Numbers . . ." (of killed men), he tells the fat-mouthed journalist who interviews him in his death cell, "numbers sanctify." An earnest priest, his last offices rejected, murmurs solemnly, "May God have mercy on your soul." "Why not?" replies M. Verdoux. "After all, it belongs to Him"-and walks out to be guillotined, away from the camera, down that straight road where most Chaplin movies...
...LIFE editorial reprinted in TIME [April 7] ... will stir a lively hope in many a heart. For, try as we may, we cannot put off forever the insistence of the soul. Man's destiny is the divine quest...
Christopher Fortune (Robert Hutton), a sensitive type, has music in his soul and wants to go to Paris to get it out. But his father (Leo G. Carroll), a rock-bound Maine sea captain, sends him to sea instead. When his father orders a second voyage, Chris does not tell the old man to go keelhaul himself, and then leave home, penniless, to write music. He just lolls around sniveling until his domineering sister (Ella Raines) and his adoring sweetheart (Phyllis Calvert) finagle money enough to send him to Paris. Later on, Chris shows his contempt for the financial side...