Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nowhere was the soul-searching more intense than in London. From the moment the Common Market idea was born, British industry has been keenly aware that it will be badly hurt the day that Germany can sell her manufactures in a tariff-free market of six nations and 160 million people, while Britain is walled out. Impelled by this vision, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Thorneycroft last year proposed a plan for a wider Free Trade Area of 16 European nations-including the Common Market six-which would exchange manufactured goods free of tariff...
Continuing the small war with the Los Angeles Police Department that he reopened some weeks ago when he sudsed his soul in Mike Wallace's TV brain laundry, onetime Desperado Mickey Cohen, now a gentleman florist, protested an $11 ticket for obstructing traffic ("Another roust on the part of the Police Intelligence Department"), appealed to a jury of his peers, lost...
...courageous sitter is Chicago Art Patron Mary Block, daughter of the late Adman Albert Lasker, wife of an Inland Steel Co. vice president and director, Leigh Block. Undaunted by such Albright canvases as Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida, the study of a time-battered prostitute, That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do, the portrait of a moldy door, and the flotsam-and-jetsam-cluttered watercolor, Ah God-Herrings, Buoys, the Glittering Sea, Mary Block put her best face forward and hoped. Albright put aside (temporarily) his work in progress of the past twelve...
...cited directions to the Players (Act iii, 2), but rather in Hamlet's 'O what a rogue and peasant slave' soliloquy (Act ii, 2), especially the lines, "Is it not monstrous that this player here,/ But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,/ Could force so his soul to his own conceit/ That from her working all his visage wann'd,/ Tears in his eyes, distraction in 's aspect,/ A broken voice, and his whole function suiting/ With forms to his conceit...
...music of Jimmy Lunsford; Benny Goodman and the importance of his Fletcher Henderson arrangements; the blues-based simplicity of Count Basie; the thin, sparse sax playing of Les Young; the small jam sessions during World War II made necessary by the wholesale draft; the emergence of bebop and the "soul" of Charlie Parker; the wild, Afro-Cubanism of Dizzy Gillespie; the "cool jazz" of Miles Davis; the influence of Woody Herman and Stan Getz; the recent "West Coast jazz," with its use of flutes and oboes, its emphasis on counterpoint and on writing out all the notes instead...