Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...terrible tragic grandeur of Christ Crucified both find their expression in the nude form. The nude has the strength of both immediacy and severe truth--man as he really is. And as in tragedy, this essential humanness makes him essentially divine, the sort of marvelous synthesis of the flesh and spirit that gave rise to the Palatine Anthology anecdote about Praxiteles' Aphrodite," Aphrodite said, "Where did Praxiteles see me naked...
...problems that he raises are the most important part of his essay. Most revealing are the changes in standards of beauty that he chronicles. The mathematical and detached nude of classical Greece decays with change in attitude toward the flesh, into the bulbous and ascetic shapes of medieval art. "The very degradation the body has suffered as a result of Christian morality served to sharpen its erotic impact. The formula of the classical ideal had been more protective than any drapery; whereas the shape of the Gothic body, which suggested that it was normally clothed, gave it the impropriety...
...thermonuclear test explosion in the Marshall Islands, the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory at San Francisco has been checking the radioactivity of animals, plants, materials, etc., in the vicinity of the crater. In Science, Herbert W. Weiss and William H. Shipman tell what they found when they checked the flesh of two giant "killer" clams (Tridacna gigas) collected last year from the shore of Rongelap atoll, 150 miles away from the South Pacific test site...
Better Chemists. Weiss and Shipman dried the clam flesh, reduced it to ash and dissolved the ash in dilute acid. The solution showed characteristic gamma rays that could come only from cobalt 60. This was odd, they thought; cobalt 60 is not a fission product, and it had not been found in other radioactive material, even in samples from much closer to Ground Zero. To make doubly sure. Weiss and Shipman ran a careful analysis. One clam proved to contain one-tenth of a microcurie of cobalt 60; the other had one-third of a microcurie...
These are not very dangerous amounts; the maximum permissible concentration of cobalt 60 in the human body is listed by the Bureau of Standards as three microcuries. A man would have to eat at least ten of the hot clams (20 Ibs. of flesh) to exceed this limit. But Weiss and Shipman cannot be sure that cobalt 60 was not heavily concentrated in some special part of the clam's tissue, increasing the danger proportionately...