Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suggested the theme; the Fund for the Advancement of Education will spend $10,000 for the series. At Louisiana's Southern University, students prepped for a month and took a one-hour exam before Hadas even opened his mouth. Hadas considers the idea not as good as "a flesh-and-blood teacher, even a bad one." But since even a bad Hadas is unavailable to the Louisiana and Mississippi students, Hadas ended his first talk feeling "quite elated...
Since nature is cruel and destructive, he reasoned, man must be too. Committing a murder, in fact, is simply lending nature a helping hand. "What difference does it make to nature," asks a homicidal aristocrat in the novel Justine, "if a mass of flesh that is shaped like a biped today is reproduced tomorrow in the form of 1,000 different insects?" But De Sade's elaborately reasoned philosophy often seems written to justify his own special taste for vice and violence. Did he have to describe so many bloody orgies, and participate in so many, to prove...
...robed priests chanted from sunrise to midnight, laymen gazed in awe, and weeping women held children up to see it all. On the altar, inside a crystal urn, which in turn was encased in a bouquet-flanked glass chest, lay the object of their reverence-a charred piece of flesh. Over it a hand-lettered sign announced: "The Eternal Heart of High Priest Quang...
...engraved the progress of his rakes and harlots like acts in a play, or when he opened the innards of Bedlam and Gin Lane, he caught the drama of England's lower depths as no other artist had. These works thrust upon English art a sense of flesh and blood, a spirit of realism from which it drew sustenance until sentimentality deluged the land in Victoria's day. But back of Hogarth's raw dramas was a tender man. No one who did not love children could have painted a little girl, with her plump red cheeks...
...experiences steeled his poet's nerves, shaped the hard philosophy of his later masterpieces, The Odyssey and The Last Temptation of Christ. Life is ceaseless combat, Kazantzakis learned, and the poet's fight is the fiercest of all: to translate experience into words, to "transform flesh into spirit...