Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...succeeding platitude illiteracies compounding inarticulateness. It shocks to learn how crudely our leaders speak the language; one thought the pulp puppets of Seven Days in Many only talked that way because they'd just finished Advise and Consent. The truth is that Drury and Bailey and the others had flesh-and-blood models for their artless heroes. And ill-clothed in the cliches, ill-housed in the vapidity, were appallingly undernourished concepts of the problems that a trusting nation had confided to the care of these men. The intellectual frigidity of Dulles produced, of course, the greatest disappointments. Hughes...
...floor of the prison cell, the cockroach struggles frantically to escape its burning bed of straw. "Confess you're not a saint," shouts one convict hovering over the minuscule pyre, "or else the fire of heaven will consume your flesh amid hideous sufferings." Cries another: "Confess that the Prince of Evil has appeared to you and seduced you, but that you see the light and that repentance floods your heart." But the roach says nothing and goes up in flames. "She's damned. God forgive...
...want exact count to be kept of my coughs, my glances, my sighs. I want no one to forget the slammed door, the lost handkerchief, the hidden cigarette, the broken shoelace; I want to be bound so tight that at the slightest movement the chains will bruise my flesh. I want to be pierced by light, I want to be absolutely pure...
...world, and, to dispose of a bag of cement, persuades them to build a tower commemorating their purchase. Mr. Paul's loquacity dazzles and overwhelms them; the only person he doesn't fool is his Woman (Tammy Miller), briefly Babel's Grabel, who knows (and shows) that only flesh is real--not words...
...picturing of cavernous shell craters, socket-eyed cadavers, skull-like gas masks. bloody vines of barbed wire and battered nerves has much the same pitiless sting as Goya's gruesome series of etchings. The Disasters of the War. Man's shreds of nobility as well as his flesh rot away into humus. A flower casually grows through the clenched hand of a corpse, petals sprout from his chest...