Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What Jayne Mansfield has, the U.S. has seen so much of so often that she stirs only the mildest of ripples. But in Rio, where movie fans rarely see Hollywood oddities in the flesh, a hard-working girl can still stir a riot, especially at carnival time. Invited down for Mardi Gras by the Copacabana Palace Hotel, Jayne was instantly dubbed "0 Busto" and missed not an opportunity to justify the dubbing...
...moral evil because it strikes, through its burden of suffering, human beings in their flesh and heart . . . bringing insecurity, anguish for the next day, and often misery...
...flesh," said Dick Neuberger, "be it Republican or Democrat, rich banker or poorly paid college professor. I think now it would be almost impossible to get angry at someone over a political issue. And it doesn't make any difference any more if my wife squeezes toothpaste from the top or the bottom, if the biscuits are burned, or if the living room is cluttered. It isn't true, as you might believe by listening to the speeches and excitement of political conventions, that one party has all the answers and that members of the other party...
...which now bears the ambitious name of the Central African Republic. It is a land of which it is said that the majority live in the Stone Age, and the advanced people live in the Middle Ages. The son of a witch doctor who claimed to have eaten human flesh, Boganda became a Roman Catholic priest, was unfrocked after he went to Paris as a Deputy and married his French secretary. A prosperous coffee planter and shrewd politician who likes to spout Latin phrases, he once gained enormous prestige by announcing just before an eclipse that he would perform...
...stands condemned for throttling a six-month-old infant to death in its crib. Nancy is a Negro ex-prostitute, but her crime is a mere postscript to the horror-gorged life of her mistress, the dead child's mother, who is enslaved to the devil in the flesh. Mrs. Gowan Stevens was formerly Temple Drake, society-girl heroine of Faulkner's novel Sanctuary, to which Requiem for a Nun is a sequel. While the law has dealt with Nancy, it is the Furies of the past that hound Temple Drake...