Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There is an impression abroad that religion first and last is a comforting and comfortable affair. Twentieth century Christianity has lost the stringent note. For most of us there is no cross in it, no abstinence, no subjugation of the flesh in the interests of the spirit. People are not made to feel when they look at the church and its program that Christianity is a creed for heroes or that to embrace it means 'living dangerously' . . . The man on the street has little reason to think, that Christians are a company of people committed to the turning...
...shout in the blood. In a first novel, Author MacMahon, 42, casts a glad eye on youth, and on a time in the mid-'20s when "lives were so thronged with small beauties that you wouldn't think 'twas sons an' daughters of the flesh we were, but children of the rainbow dwellin' always in the mornin' of the world...
GHOST AND FLESH (183 pp.)-William Goyen-Random House...
Ghost and Flesh, by 34-year-old William Goyen of Texas, is a collection of eight wispy stories of the haunted-South school. All the stories are gracefully written, and some of them break into prose poetry reminiscent of Thomas Wolfe. But they create a mood rather than people. Author Goyen writes chiefly about loneliness. "The world," he says, "is too big; we lose people in it." Wandering through the lyrical pages of Ghost and Flesh is a variety of lost and lonely souls, including such town oddities as "Old Mrs. Woman," whom nobody loved because...
...title role in Herman Melville's classic Moby Dick is played by a white sperm whale that got one of Captain Ahab's legs-and eventually got the whole of him. Moby Dick himself escaped triumphantly, and flesh & blood whalers have claimed that nothing like him was ever harpooned before or since...