Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just as Aldous Huxley spoke of "murderee" types, Malcolm is a corruptee-he invites corruption. He is dumb, passive and available, and he lacks all strength of purity. The healthy organism rejects disease; the pure spirit resists evil. As for the spectacle of the supine young Adonis having his flesh and heart beaked out by grotesque female vultures, the ritual is overly familiar and more than a bit of a drag. Lolling in this effete bordello of his imagination, Albee achieved his first quick flop (seven performances) and his tiniest play...
...British Ambassador to The Hague for 600 florins. A surviving letter, signed by the artist, describes the work as "Daniel amidst many lions, which are taken from the life. Original, the whole by my hand." Rubens is often dismissed as a rote fabricator of effulgent flesh, of plump nudes and pillared panoramas of bestial warriors. His Daniel is, otherwise, dramatic proof of the baroque at its turbulent best...
...putrefying flesh of a dead animal is as unpleasant to scientists as to anyone else. As a result, relatively little research has been done on the decay processes that can rapidly reduce a dead body to bones and a few hanks of hair. The dearth of carrion data bothered Clemson University Entomologist Jerry Payne so much that his scientific curiosity eventually overcame his distaste. In some revealing experiments with decaying animal carcasses, he reports in Ecology, he clearly demonstrated that insects take the major role in the decomposition of carrion. He also suggests that study of the insects themselves will...
...bodies of piglets that had been still-born or accidentally crushed by their mothers. One group of cadavers was carefully screened and the other protected against animal scavengers but fully exposed to insect invasion. Then the patient entomologist settled down for a decomposition watch. Within five minutes, the first flesh-eating flies arrived to begin feeding on the unscreened piglets. During the next few weeks, 522 species of tiny morticians -most of them insects-arrived to join the feast. Among them, Payne identified "3 phyla, 9 classes, 31 orders, 151 families and 359 genera." By the eighth day, the only...
...philosophers, boldly subtitled his latest book, Individuals, An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics. The book is partly concerned with the difference between material objects and human beings, a highly technical question that, by extension, has to do with the very real problem of whether man can be explained like a flesh-and-blood object of whether he is an organism with a purpose. Another, younger Oxonian, Anthony Quinton, is completing a philosophical treatise, grandly titled The Nature of Things, that starts from the problem of identity and reference: Is a given object simply a bundle of qualities, or is it something...