Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nowhere was the soul-searching more noteworthy than among Britain's dyed-in-the-wool Marxists. Lifelong Communist Arthur Horner, bespectacled boss of the 730,000-man National Union of Mineworkers, phoned up the right-wing Daily Express to announce that he was "shocked and horrified" at this "needless folly." (He remains a Communist, apparently disturbed only by inept tactics.) In Scotland Mrs. Helen Wolff, sister of top British Communist John Gollan, quit the party in disgust. And to the surprise of one and all, the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, "Red Dean" of Canterbury, opened his eyes long enough...
Program & Plans. Last week the three men sat together at Confraternidad's first public meeting. Their program, to be spread through radio, press, lectures, books: i) "mold a collective soul through the union and understanding of all believers," 2) "form a common front against soulless forces which destroy the dignity of man," and 3) "promote the spiritual significance of democracy...
...become part of history. It is still a living legend." Second, at a time when France is sore beset on all sides, "impressionism gave back to us the vision of the days when life was agreeable, back in the 19th century, when Man, as always when his soul is at peace, paid court to Nature...
Shall I tell you of the other ones? The squat little man with the crew-cut who sold his soul and pen to an Elsie's wall mural fo three blue punch cards. Or the intense young man with thinning hair and a changing voice who reads Wallace Stevens to a saxaphone solo. Or the boy from the Bronx who writes Spanish poetry...
Forty-three soul-savers walked amid the soft lawns and chandeliered salons of what had once been a "gentlemen's club of ill repute" not far from London last week, and talked about the good old days. The high command of the Salvation Army was meeting for a 16-day special session at its Sunbury on Thames training center, and the agenda before it was privately described by the commissioners as a "crisis." For sinners are not what they used to be-and the Army...