Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fighting a last-ditch battle for his home and his dignity," he says. "What that means in practical terms to the nation is that the federal government is faced with a choice of wiping out the entire Ibo race or administering a nation that has built into its flesh a core of implacable hate. There will be no victory for anyone...
...items in proportion to their multiplicity or scarcity-value increasing with the rarity of the object and decreasing with its abundance. Thus the explosion of the population has tended to cheapen human life in the eyes of many. It becomes increasingly difficult to say "thou" to a mass of flesh that bumps and pushes and encroaches more and more on free space, sacred privacy and a diminishing food supply. I fear that the Pope cannot see the flesh for the spirit...
...Loeb can do, making action seem remote and impersonal, Sebastian Melmoth's impressive but ugly set puts the Loeb one step closer to a kind of synthetheatre defeating the electricity theatre can generate between stage and audience. The set's colors are not so much terra cottas as flesh and, added to the admirable but arty lighting, the whole thing was weighted toward the ghastly...
...eminently pitiable that Enderby instead becomes a fast friend, and as if this small magnanimity had opened the way for a flood of emotion, the book ends with an almost-love affair in which Enderby is dazzled by a nameless girl who could be his muse in the flesh...
...Mayer's combined respect for and ability to manipulate the audience does not entirely result in our being able to sit back and laugh for 2 1/2 hours, and his vision of the all-too-real dream incorporates terror, coruption of the flesh, and the inadequacy of the bonds between the combinations of lovers. Here the Summer Players' production is less accessible, and without dwelling on interpretation best left to each of you, I would quietly and seriously suggest that Mayer has invested something of his heart and soul in the show. Also that the terror inherent in the confrontation...