Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like the platypus who cannot decide whether he is flesh or fowl, a new secies has in recent years appeared in the zoo of critical writing. This is the work--basically an outgrowth of feature journalism--which hovers indeterminately between straight biography and straight criticism without fulfilling the requirements of either form. The Private World of William Fauikner, by Robert Coughlan, is one of these books...
Streetcar's Stanley Kowalski, as Brando conceived him, was a man to match the blast furnaces and the man-killing mines of an industrial age-"one of those guys who work hard and have lots of flesh with nothing supple about them. They never open their fists, really. They grip a cup like an animal would wrap a paw around it. They're so muscle-bound they can hardly talk. Stanley didn't give a damn how he said a thing. His purpose was to convey his idea. He had no awareness of himself...
...Born miraculously (out of a rock), he was first adored by gift-bearing shepherds. He suffered various adversities but at last ascended to heaven. Mithraism used bells and candles in its ritual, as well as communion and holy water. It taught immortality of the soul, the resurrection of the flesh and the last judgment...
...Kurt was dead or a prisoner in Russia; Fritz, the younger boy, was a good-for-nothing young Nazi who had once betrayed his parents to the Gestapo and who soon would betray them again. Author Faviell's favorites were the two Altmann girls, as different as flesh and fire. Ursula, the pretty one, had been raped by a band of Russians, though it probably was not the first time; Lilli, fair and delicate ("probably the only virgin . . . in Berlin," observed sister Ursula), was an exquisite little ballet dancer with eyes "almost violet blue...
...Flesh Is Weak. In Duluth, a gunman mailed back $60 of the $200 he had stolen from Grocer Ezzy Lebo, enclosed a note: "I have a tremendous conscience, but I also have a stomach that is bigger than my conscience...