Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...training. It isn't supposed to shape the moral character of its students, who come to Cambridge to acquire specific skills and knowledge. It's only inevitable that a few alumni will do things of which the school won't be proud, so there is little reason for the soul-searching going on right now. Harvard graduates tend to do well after they leave because they were already talented achievers when they got here. The University claims too much credit for their later success; it isn't morally responsible when they go astray...
...Kamal notices need and gets up and does something about it. He's mobilized people into action on behalf of others, and that's remarkable," says Robert Coles '50, Professor of Psychiatry and president of ODN's board of directors. "Kamal has what Tolstoy calls a great soul...
Harry Angel is investigating one such compact. Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro), a dapper gent with long fingernails that could rip your heart out, has hired him to find Johnny Favorite, who hit it big as a crooner before the war, then disappeared, body and soul, welshing on a commitment to Cyphre. The people who knew Favorite -- a junkie physician (Michael Higgins), a blues guitarist (Brownie McGhee), a society girlfriend (Charlotte Rampling) and her father (Stocker Fontelieu) -- share two annoying habits: they won't tell all they know, and they keep turning up dead, in circumstances that implicate Angel...
Today those words still apply to too many conductors and their orchestras. Beethoven symphonies are wolfed down like bran flakes, high in moral fiber and good for the soul; meanwhile, less celebrated works are regarded as the aural version of empty calories. Here, apparently, is the enduring Toscanini legacy, and, according to Horowitz's plausible indictment, one that shows few signs of fading away...
Alan Parker' s Angel Heart loses an X rating and saves its gritty soul. -- Some Kind of Wonderful: more teen angst from John Hughes...