Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BRAHMS: GERMAN REQUIEM (Deutsche Grammophon; 2 LPs). "Blessed are they that mourn," softly sings the chorus, and soon the sad saraband begins ("For all flesh is as grass"). At length the black solemnity is relieved by the soaring soprano voice of Gundula Janowitz singing "I will see you again." A powerful, rhythmically relentless performance by Herbert von Karajan, the Berlin Philharmonic and the Vienna Singverein...
...even the cast has a good time. The nurses seem embarrassed at all that flesh showing, the sailors droop barrel-chested across the stage, the officers prance and posture like stiff marionettes, everybody has lousy posture. The production wallows in that bumbly amateurishness of the parents' weekend extravaganza at your kid sister's summer camp. Come to thin of it, didn't they do South Pacific there last summer? Or the summer before...
Addressing the crowd, journalist L.F. Stone said of the march, "Nothing could be better calculated to rid this country's reputation of the smell of burining flesh and napalm...
...translate English into Russian and vice versa. On technical articles, where words generally have a very precise meaning, it did fairly well. But it was decided to find out what the machine would do with a more lyrical type of writing. The quotation "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak" was fed into the computer, which promptly translated it into Russian and then translated the Russian back into English. The results: "The ghost is ready, but the meat...
Writing in Commentary, William Phillips nai's the whole genre by devastatingly describing Burroughs' Nova Express as "the feeding almost literally of human flesh and organs on each other in an orgy of annihilation. The whole world is reduced to the fluidity of excrement as everything dissolves into everything else." And Critic John Wain adds: "A pornographic novel is, in however backhanded a way, on the side of something describable as life. Naked Lunch, by contrast, is unreservedly on the side of death...