Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sold out their first supplies. To a large extent, the excitement is fueled by memories of Salinger's most famous work. For of all the characters set to paper by American authors since the war, only Holden Caulfield, the gallant scatologer of The Catcher in the Rye, has taken flesh permanently, as George F. Babbitt, Jay Gatsby, Lieut. Henry and Eugene Gant took flesh...
...very probational pass to meet trains, he tried to empty his face of all expression that might quite simply, perhaps even beautifully, reveal how he felt about the arriving person." This is the sort of bull's-eye at which Salinger is unmatched. It is felt by the flesh as much as by the mind; for an instant, the reader's cheeks sag as he remembers, with ridiculous guilt, the last time he met a train. During lunch (at a French restaurant, naturally; Lane is no steak man), the young man turns out to be insufferable. Salinger destroys him mercilessly...
...Sand Castle. In a charming but not overly cute story, a little boy builds a castle of sand so stunning that it merits inclusion in Sir Bannister Fletcher's His tory of Architecture, while the camera roams in satiric asides among the flesh castles strewn on the beach...
...century B.C., turned away from worldly pleasure to seek enlightenment of the soul. The advisers are trying to keep the sex in balance with the substance, the taste with the tasty; and Buddha himself -played by 23-year-old Rising Son Kojiro Hongo-will only appear in the flesh during the first segment of the film. After that, he becomes a ray of light, a murmur of thunder. The script even avoids mentioning the birth of the Enlightened One's child, but otherwise spares nothing: the cartoon bevies of sensual maidens who surround the young prince, the rape...
...from 8,000 to 13,000, has plans to take about 20,000 every month after that for the rest of the year. At present the Army has no plans to add any new divisions to its total of 14, instead will use many of its new troops to flesh out the three stateside divisions of the Strategic Army Force: the 2nd Armored, the 1st Infantry and the 2nd Infantry, all now used largely as training cadres. In addition, new troops will serve to beef up the Seventh Army's five divisions now in Europe. The Army will also...