Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radio--People gonna rock, people gonna roll, movin and a groovin, gonna satisfy my soul...
Raintree County (MGM) begins in tedium and ends, 168 leaden minutes later, in apathy. Montgomery Clift, talking through his nose and expressing sensitivity of soul by seldom looking other cast members in the eye, jitters through the role of John Shawnessy, hero of the late Ross Lockridge Jr.'s bestselling 1948 novel. Represented to be a kind of rustic, 20-year-old Candide of pre-Civil War Indiana, 37-year-old Clift goes lurching through a swamp in search of a magical "rain tree," supposedly planted years before by Johnny Appleseed. Whether the tree bears knowledge, truth or just...
...Persia's great poet, Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-73), wrote of the union of the soul with God, its banishment to the world, and the impossibility of putting into words directions for finding the way back. But words were not all the great Rumi had; he taught his followers a way to dance themselves into a state of mystical union with the Divine. They became the famed sect of Mevlevi dervishes, who carried on their mystical method for seven centuries in monasteries throughout the Middle East. Known as the whirling dervishes, they are popularly confused with the Rifais...
Conclude Jeep and Hollis: "Group dynamics is an energy-consuming, but very rewarding, method for both students and teacher. Soul-searching and deep learning are always energy-consuming...
...automakers, whose sales have a prime effect on the U.S. economy, last week lowered their targets. Chrysler President Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert, who only a few months ago was the soul of confidence as he predicted a 6,000,000-plus year for autos in 1958, told a Harvard Business School audience that the entire auto industry is in for a poorer year than he expected-though still a good one. "We know that the people have the jobs and that their savings-bank accounts are at a high level," said Colbert, "but the consumer has lost the desire...