Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...behind all the gesticulating and expectorating not many people have considered that perhaps Ted was possessed of some inner, subconscious motivation, the type which Louis Macneice included in his Epilogue for W.H. Auden, stating that it is "time for soul to stretch and spit, before the world comes back on it." Williams has undoubtedly been using Widener Library to enlarge his understanding of the psyche...
...Sheep. On another occasion Preacher Prescott averts crisis with sage humor. Facing the task of laying to rest a lost sheep who, by the parson's own count, had smashed every one of the Ten Commandments, Preacher Prescott stands up to deliver a funeral oration over the blackened soul, suddenly bangs shut his Bible and declaims: "Brothers and Sisters, you knowed Charlie. I knowed Charlie. Let's bury him." And so they...
...whom joined the independence movement under his influence, died after repeated imprisonments. Nonetheless, it was the fight for independence that focused Nehru's talents and made him a man of destiny. Through it, he discovered peasant India and the fact that, somehow or other, he could manipulate its soul. And it was primarily for this skill that Gandhi, who may have been a saint but was above all a shrewd politician, named Nehru heir to the leadership of India...
...soda and, so the Bourbouliens say, is good for anemia, rheumatism, diabetes, postprandial bloat, intermittent fevers and a host of other ailments. Sooner or later, shrewd Gallic hôteliers were sure to figure that what is good for man is also good for beasts. One fellow with the soul of a pressagent finally hit on the thought that a swig or two from La Bourboule's springs might change a candidate for the horse butchers into a stakes-winning thoroughbred...
Playwright Enid Bagnold has built her comedy on subtle dialogue and bizarre characterizations. Since she seems to believe that the soul of wit is not brevity but irrelevancy, there are some moments--especially in the first act--when the sudden monologues about plants and fertilizers make the play formless and uninteresting. But once the characterizations are well established, the playwright manages to maintain a tight, logical consistency between the fanciful lines and the equally volatile people who utter them...