Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fierce, proud indigenes of Africa's northwest corner who in the 8th century were engulfed (but not permanently subdued) by the Islamic invaders from Arabia. The Berbers adopted the Moslem religion, but their practices were eccentric-heterodox in some ways (e.g., they eat wild boar's flesh), rigidly fundamentalist in others. Unlike the urban Arabs in Morocco, the rural Berbers have remained steadfastly pro-French...
...painted in 1899, has the same passionate sobriety that made Eakins great. Both men began with Rembrandt, but neither knuckled under to the old master. They were as true to their age and hemisphere as Rembrandt had been to his. To portraitists of such quality, models are not only flesh and bones in a chair but also thoughts and feelings in the air. Madame Lebrun's sad, narrow gaze-as much as her elegant blouse and the stiffness of her spine-is forever Victorian...
...there were some truly terrible doings out at the Lewis place in old Kentucky. Doc Lewis' son Lilburn had murdered his manservant George with an ax. Then, before the terrified eyes of his younger brother Isham and the other slaves, the body was thrown on the fire, the flesh burned off, the bones gathered and buried. What was young George's crime to fetch such dire punishment? He had broken a pitcher that had been prized by the boys' dead mother...
...family Bible and quietly dies. His wife leaves him. The whole family is ostracized by the community. "And I grieve for him," writes Paton, "and the house he has made to fall with him, not as with Samson the house of his enemies, but the house of his own flesh and blood. And I grieve for the nation which gave him birth, that left the trodden and the known for the vast and secret continent, and made there songs of heim-wee and longing, and the iron laws...
...Flesh & Florins. Puzzled by his cool, delicate style, Lotto's fellow Venitians much preferred the flesh and blood magnificence of his giant contemporary, Titian. So Lotto roamed Italy's small towns, picking up a commission for a church mural here, a portrait there. In 1554, when he was 72, Lotto turned himself and his belongings over to the Holy House at Loreto, because he was "tired of wandering." The contract provided that the monks would say prayers for him, and that he would have one florin a month "to do what he pleased with...