Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When pious Doukhobors (religious sect) parade naked in protest, British Columbia police pepper their bare flesh with itch powder, spank their bare backs with short lengths of hose. In Thrums last week 200 angry, itching Doukhobors retaliated by squirting water at the peppering police. After furious scuffling 84 male and 33 female Doukhobors were arrested, charged with nudism, face possible jail sentences of three years...
...Concord tolled seventy-nine strokes, for Raiph Waldo Emerson had died. Well might Concord and all New England mourn, for that death marked the high tide of New England's leadership in the world of belles lettres. Hamlin Garland has told of the change. But Emerson was the flesh and blood of America's first native literature, and as such he has become a myth, godly, mysterious, and sacred. Moderns do not read Emerson much, perhaps because they fear the myth, perhaps because they cannot understand his strength...
...mask is sad. But under flesh and skin...
Life, a hawk hanging in California's stainless sky, stares down on Life, a ground-squirrel crouching on California's sun-bleached desert hills. When the squirrel begins to tremble, when the trembling reaches the marrow of his consciousness, the hawk swoops. After stripping off the flesh, he cracks the bones, sucks the trembling conscious marrow out. Fed with consciousness, his essential bread, the hawk returns to the stainless sky, hangs waiting for the ground-squirrel's son, their sons, their sons...
...burn is caused by dry heat of 140° F. or more, a scald by moist heat of 120° F. or more. Their injuries to flesh are identical...