Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heaven, exact location not defined. His son came to earth in human flesh, preached and worked miracles, by his death redeemed man, and rose again to heaven, where he "sitteth on the right hand of God." So say the Bible and the Christian creeds; but since the story makes no sense to many literal, science-minded men. the Right Rev. John A. T. Robinson. 43, Anglican Bishop of Woolwich, accommodatingly explains in a new book that the doctrine is mostly dubious. Published last month in a five-shilling paperback gaily titled Honest to God, Bishop Robinson's revision...
...simply stood in space without having any particular relationship to it. In 1934. Ferber began a series of wrestlers into which space entered quite naturally between the parts of the two struggling bodies. Gradually space became more and more important in his work; he whittled down his figures until flesh became bone and bone in time became purely abstract forms. The wrestling went on, but the combatants were no longer human...
...moving ineluctably toward my own death." Because Tamura shows no mercy to himself, he can show none to others. But at the point of utter degradation, Tamura at last finds his will. While other surviving Japanese turn to cannibalism, Tamura balks and takes a bitter pride in refusing the flesh of another human. At long last, he is able to utter the words that come so easily to people in a free world: "No one can make me do what I do not want...
Over the years, he turned out a family of voluptuous women; and even the few other shapes he produced-from sea shells to tulips-had a feminine sensuousness and grace. But Maldarelli was not concerned with sensuousness alone. "It isn't the flesh but the spirit I'm interested in. I wouldn't waste a minute to represent the physical aspect. I'm trying to create a form, beautiful harmonies of shapes." To isolate the spirit, Maldarelli used models only for preliminary sketches; for the finished work, he fell back on memory, trusting it to capture...
...Rotgut," a word that sounds as if it were coined no later than Prohibition, meant much the same thing to Johnson; it was "bad beer" in his day. A Hollywood flesh peddler, i.e., actor's agent, has a philological ancestor in Johnson's London, where a pimp was a fleshmonger. "Bum" Dr. Johnson defined with magisterial simplicity as "the part on which...