Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Looking around at what many fanciful talespinners had described as a northern Shangrila, Berton came to this solemn conclusion: "O credulous and gullible world . . . the vale that set your soul aflame with the fire of adventure exists only in your own imagination...
...press had prepared (with crossed fingers) for its first mass invasion of Moscow.* Molotov, the soul of hospitality, had assured Jimmy Byrnes in December that everything would be done for the visiting correspondents; they could cover the Foreign Ministers' meeting as they had reported the Paris and New York sessions. And U.S. Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith had been assured that newsmen could "write with complete freedom on conference matters...
...with such vivid lavishness that by the time the reader has reached the end of Under the Volcano there is not an unfamiliar bird, beast or grain of dust. But the method which succeeds so well in regard to landscape is unendurable in regard to the human mind and soul. Author Lowry's psychoanalysis-with its interminable interior monologues and devotion to the tiniest turns of thought-results in a prose so coagulated by indiscriminate introspection that it bogs down like the characters it describes...
...study of the anguished conditions of the human soul, Under the Volcano never misses a trick. As a study of living human beings, it buries itself under its own eruptions...
Stock Role. Thus assembled for their adventure, each of Steinbeck's principal characters may be dimly identified with a stock role in a leftist parable. Juan is a figure of free enterprise and individualism -sexual, of course, as well as economic. Pritchard is a cartoon of the corpsy soul of Anglo-U.S. capitalism, self-deceived and remote from natural life; Mrs. Chicoy is a type of frank, stupid and violent sensuality; Mrs. Pritchard is The Nice Woman, that baneful figure, whose frigidity is the source and symbol of her other deathly qualities; Mildred, her sulky offspring, apparently represents...