Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time and frustration had blurred the towering, bony frame and added flesh to the sad falcon face. But the manner was still much the same-the haughtiness, the imperious pride and, over it all, the toga of weary martyrdom. He strode in past the painted nudes and mirrored walls of Paris' Hotel Continental to a burst of applause. Hundreds of his admirers, as they always do, had clustered around the dais and monopolized most of the seats at the press conference, leaving newsmen to find seats where they could...
Avoiding the Flesh pots. The question of which church to serve posed no problem. His lawyer father was a casual Episcopalian,- his mother a devout Presbyterian. Pit unhesitatingly chose the Presbyterian for his ministry. "I wasn't keen about the liturgical emphasis in the Episcopal Church," he says. "I also thought it contained more charming nominal Christians than any other. I missed its lack of moral drive. My religious motivation is primarily moral, and always will be. I didn't have to read Reinhold Niebuhr to know about original sin. The forces of evil are always gaining ground...
...Britain, "[I think] of a young man . . . looking at me out of cavernous eyes with a vague, nearly distracted gaze. And I must return his glance, see again the compressed lips from which the teeth stand out as a caricature. How the skull structure has pushed forward against the flesh of the cheeks which are flattened by a tremendous pressure, the skin of the forehead pulled back, the flesh of the chin sagging . . . Poor little superman...
...each institution was cherished as a milestone on that odyssey. In the 19th century, Toryism stood sturdily against the laissez-faire doctrine of Liberalism with its conception of labor as a commodity. The great Tory reformer Disraeli, a biographer once wrote, "could not believe that men. men of flesh with mobile faces . . . were condemned to combine like so many crooked atoms to produce the cheapest possible calico in the richest possible world." In that day, said Rab, "Conservatism did not hesitate to invoke the collective power of society to redress the social wrongs caused by economic development. Now Socialism unduly...
...Manhattan after two futile days of rushing around the capital and trying to talk to the right people, Haymes took Rita nightclubbing. They were joined by table-hopping New York Post Columnist Leonard Lyons, who reported that he scribbled while Haymes wept. "If I could change my bones, my flesh," Haymes cried. "No, no second beginning. I know this land and love it ... When I leave, I guess I'll just say, 'America, forgive me.' " Murmured Rita: "Well, they're set to fry us, and we're ready...