Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each beauty, flesh or grass, seemed sure...
...novel, Going Native exhibits Dr. Gogarty's prose in a lively state of decay. It concerns the adventures of a Casanovian Irishman, Gideon Ouseley, among the English. About it hangs an odd flavor of the old Evelyn Waugh, not least in the dedication "to Alfred and Patricia Flesh of Piqua." It begins with a ripe and shameless piece of blarney in which Ouseley describes his parting with the late William Butler Yeats ("Grandeur is gone, Ouseley, grandeur is gone . . .") and a sufficient hint that Ouseley represents Gogarty himself...
...cause trouble. Rationally, it is unacceptable. War destroys both men and society. Finally, Americans have a powerful intuitive repulsion to killing. Using Professor Sorokin's integral method of approach it seems clear that people should make a conscious effort to eliminate war, to extract the thorn in the flesh of civilization. However, from its narrow empirical point of view, America acts on its experience that war may be bad for combatants but is eminently profitable for non-combatants, so it exploits war for what it's worth. Americans have deserted the reality of intuition, absolute values, rationalism, and the reality...
Last week it was possible to give only a preliminary introduction to the paintings of George Grosz which are being shown in the Dunster House exhibit of contemporary watercolors and lithographs. By making use of a specific example, a painting entitled "The Way Of All Flesh," perhaps a clearer and more concrete expression of the artist's method can be presented...
...products for which the carcass of the slaughtered animal is utilized. In the lower left corner of the painting, there is a potted plant, the pale green leaves of which serve as a restful contrast to the warm color used elsewhere. Thus, in Grosz's "The Way Of All Flesh," we find a pictorial presentation of a cycle of life. And each step in this natural cycle is made to appear corrupted and, in a sense, unnatural. For the plant, which is the source of all animal existence, is taken from its natural environment and placed...