Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made it across the sea. (NBC will try again next week.) Elsewhere, World fared better, e.g., a noisy jazz session in a monastery with Brother Boyce Brown on the sax. But the whole panorama was marred by languid Narrator Dave Garroway's overripe prose ("Filter music through the soul and it becomes the clear wine of communication...
...argument in no way compensates for the fact that the tone is incredibly pompous (Aaron is good, but is he so good that he can afford to be pompous?) and that the prose often has a quality which could most adequately be described as best read before dinner. ("The 'soul' of the actor is the hardest thing to find.") Then, too, one wonders whether the piece is educational in intent, or perhaps a defense before the fact...
Pissarro might not have been surprised. Belatedly, perhaps, he has been found right in believing, as he once wrote: "When you put all your soul into a work, all that is noble in you, you cannot fail to find a kindred spirit who understands...
...more often a quiet acceptance of fate. Mel Ferrer's Prince Andrey has a certain sullen grandeur, but his diction is often unclear, and he is more wooden than reserved, more testy than proud. Henry Fonda's leanness at first seems all wrong for the massive, moonfaced, soul-tortured Pierre. But Fonda builds beautifully into his part, using a physical clumsiness as a counterpoise to his soaring spirit, making his rages seem the more terrible since they flash out from passivity. As he struggles for the answers to the great questions (Why does a man live? Why does...
Possessed Psychologist. Dr. Stein confesses that when first confronted by such a formidable patient, the analyst himself "is liable to become possessed of his own witchlike soul." If hag and analyst survive this initial stage, they will eventually come cordially to loathe each other. At this point the patient begins to look "old, hard, spiteful and evil" and uses every instrument in her power short of tears to establish dominion over the analyst. (True to the medieval belief that witches cannot weep, Stein has never seen the loathsome woman shed a tear.) Alternately sadistic and seductive, Dr. Stein...