Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dusk at this point, and Ben Edwards provides splendidly perceptible and atmospheric gloom to emphasize the foreboding mood. But the almost surreal quality of this passage, its combination of mystery and sublimity that survives the most dreary Shavian bathos when read with half an ear and half a soul, is turned by its current interpreters into a distracted pandering for tepid chuckles. Mr. Clurman has caused the weird chant to be accompanied by a jolly jig, and Maurice Evans delivers Shotover's curtain line with a phlegmy ingratiation that completely drains it of grandeur...
...literary executor, a fatuous bundle of sociological cliches. Then there are Sebastian's two mistresses. As the investigator probes on, it is not one Sebastian Knight who emerges, but a different Sebastian for every relationship. The gist of the secret that the half brother learns is "that the soul is but a manner of being-not a constant state-that any soul may be yours, if you find and follow its undulations...
Show of the Month (CBS, 8:30-10 p.m.) An old standby, Body and Soul. Ex-Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey, as technical adviser, will try to make Ben Gazzara look like the middleweight champion of the world...
...sense, a socialist lecturing to atheists on political economy is every bit as much preaching to them about the salvation of their souls--propter nos homines et propter nostram salutem--as a priest addressing the faithful about the Incarnation, Crucifixion, and Resurrection. The aim is not heaven, however, but utopia--and a false utopia will no more do than a tinsel paradise would have sufficed for the martyrs and the saints. To atheists, politics is religion; rival schemes of worldly order, are, literally, conflicting eschatologies; and the contemporary sense of individual political impotence is as awful a burden as Luther...
...theologians themselves sometimes forget, that these are only metaphors. Only religious discourse has evolved expressions powerful enough to convey how intense political concerns have become today because the latter alone deals meaningfully today with what once the former alone could speak of: that is, the 'salvation' of the human 'soul...