Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists poured screaming flesh & blood against the French concrete, wire and land mines. Most of the attackers fired rifles, pistols and Tommy guns, but some hurled razor-sharp spears. Wave after wave, they came on through the night. In the morning, although parts of the perimeter had been caved in, the French still held the heart of Dienbienphu. The dead and wounded-many defenders and at least 1,000 Communists, said the French-were piled so thick that a three-hour cease fire was arranged, so the field could be cleared of casualties...
...first quarrels with his father about three quarters of a year before he is born. It is then he insists on setting up a separate establishment." With this provocative generalization, written 80 years ago in The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler not only supplied the main clue to his own character but set hissing the long fuse at whose other end stood that grand, portentous chunk of dynamite, the Victorian father. But Butler's masterpiece was only published after his death (1902), and it was not until the rebellious '20s that his Way of All Flesh became...
...infantry platoon only 20 yards from the Bug River, Corporal Gnotke saw the small Russian-held village on the other side pulverized in a matter of minutes by German planes and guns. When the infantry attacked, there was no resistance, only dazed old people and the smell of burning flesh. As a newly arrived lieutenant had reflected the night before: "The Führer can work wonders...
...party, the central role of the psychiatrist, the prevailing Noel Coward morality and manners, expressed something immensely relevant to modern life; audiences might fiercely quarrel with Eliot's cure, but they could not deny the disease. But The Confidential Clerk pierces to the spirit without cutting through any flesh. There are moments of illumination, but in general the story, even where symbolic, remains absurd...
...Stoics and as new as the Existentialists. Where Jean Giono differs from both Marcus Aurelius and Jean-Paul Sartre is in his addiction to verbal color and sensuous imagery. The Horseman on the Roof is an orgy of symbolic corpses, stinks, carrion crows and flesh-eating nightingales, interspersed with involved philosophical breedings and brisked up with epigrams ("Cavalrymen like women to scream"; "I'm afraid of grocers when they have guns"). But. like most contemporary philosophical novelists, Giono makes no real effort to be clear or intelligible. It is hard to see how he expects to help .lift modern...