Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most moving scenes in Shakespeare, Falstaff was killed off. To replace him, his pal, Pistol, the quintessential burlesque of the Elizabethan soul, was played far down to the groundlings...
...failure of modern novelists since, and including, James Joyce is one of presumption and exorbitance. They are not content with the artificial figures which hitherto passed so gracefully as men and women. They try to represent the whole human mind and soul and yet omit its determining character-that of being God's creature with a defined purpose...
Editorially, the Pilot, official organ of the Boston archdiocese, wrung its hands: "G. Bromley Oxnam has to live with himself. Undoubtedly he says prayers before he retires at night. In these orisons, in his baring of soul before a God Who reads our innermost hearts, let the Bishop weigh his responsibility for the confusion he spread in that . . . talk, for the pain he inflicted on all whose only trust is the Crucified Hope of the world, for the delight he gave to those who try to convince themselves that belly, sensual desire, is the only god worthy of rational worship...
Good morning without cigaret tzan-tzantza ganga bouzbouc zdouc scars laziness of sparkling lights . . . his belly is a, big box for there are zigzags on his soul and a lot of rrrrrrrrr...
Housman could indulge in depths of unblushing self-pity; but he could also write the magnificent Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle. His gift for epigram and poetic conceit was too glib, but he could also write...