Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation began paying its pound of flesh last week for the steel and coal strikes. All over the country, the vise-tight pinch on steel and other metals began to shut down plants or curtail industrial production. Though U.S. industry was still far from capacity, production was already bumping the materials ceiling...
...Flesh & Blood. It is Chantal's own obsession with gladness and light that is her undoing. Her moments of spiritual illumination are regarded by those around her as a nervous disorder, and, like Saint Joan, she is forced to submit to questioning. When her first inquisitor, her hysterical father, uncovers nothing but his own cowardice, a psychiatrist is called in. The psychiatrist emerges from the ordeal fit to be put in a strait jacket. Then a perspicacious Catholic abbé, who has secretly doubted the existence of God for many years, is summoned-and finds himself newly inspired with...
Bernanos is trying to explore states of mind too private to be communicable. Few novelists could give flesh and blood to such a clutter of spiritual skeletons as inhabit the De Clergerie chateau; even fewer could use a teen-age girl as the symbol for an exalted faith without making her too good to be true. Joy is fair evidence of why Novelist Bernanos has never influenced many and yet has vigorously influenced...
...flesh, he is good-looking, not too large, stands 5 ft. 10 in. tall, weighs 188 pounds, and walks with a noticeable spring in his step. In the stands Saturday, the hymns of praise that echoed skyward every time he tied his shoelaces or adjusted his helmet were strangely reminiscent of Fenway, where the crowd blows its top every time Ted Williams gets a base on balls. Let no parallel be drawn between the two athletes themselves...
...Flesh & Blood...