Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...standouts: a competently sumptuous Nude at the Mirror, by Georges Capon; Edouard Goerg's fuzzy, dreamy Midnight Bouquet, reminiscent of the 19th-Century Romanticist Odilon Redon; and Astarté, by André Marchand. Marchand, in his 30s, is considered one of the "younger" painters. His picture of green flesh, black water and blue sand was startling in a show full of surprises. The most surprising thing about it was that he had painted the sky blue...
...take many years of such episodes to turn the young girl into a half-hysterical bundle of nerves. She became morbidly religious, wore spiked necklaces to mortify her flesh, built altars in the woods. She lived in a dreamworld peopled with overwrought heroes and heroines. But when her grandmother died, 18-year-old Aurore promptly married Casimir Dudevant, whom acid Poet Heinrich Heine later described as having "the tepid vulgarity, the banal nullity, the porcelain stare of a Chinese pagoda...
...confusion on the subject comes from the popular but mistaken idea that the soul is immortal, and is detached from the body at death, and survives as a separate living entity. Moses corrected this false idea centuries ago when he wrote: The life of the flesh is in the blood (Leviticus 17:11). The blood is in the body and the life is in the blood; not in a bloodless entity detached from the body, in life and in death...
...dark womb We did not know our mother's face; From the prison of her flesh we have come Into the unspeakable and incommunicable prison Of this earth...
...Corregidor's fall in 1942 Douglas MacArthur wrote: "Through the bloody haze of its last reverberating shot, I shall always seem to see the vision of its grim, gaunt and ghostly men." Last week many of the Philippine wraiths were again flesh & blood, rescued after more than three years of Japanese prison life...