Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While he is aware of the fact that most students hold him in absolute awe, Roberts is always eager to talk to them, has conversations with homely girls, dresses casually, and generally has everyone at Columbia U. feeling human flesh was rarely more perfectly conceived. It all sounds a bit fantastic, and he did loss 42-0 to Dartmouth and King...
...same Miss Olson (see color) that Wyeth painted four years later in 1952. It is a striking portrait in its own right, but the drama is in the subtle conflicts between toughness and tenderness, courage and decay, and in the years of suffering implied by every wrinkle in the flesh and every blemish on the wall. In The Mill, Wyeth tried to capture "the damp feeling, the strength of the land," yet, in this silent scene, a feeling of conflict is still there as the earth struggles to wrench itself from the cold clutch of winter...
Except for a skein of flesh off which...
After the end of the world, the lovers emerge from the mausoleum to find a universe cleansed. "The hour will come when you will ripen and burst, and we shall harvest the fruits of our love," the young man says. "A trace of us will remain, etched in flesh, and nothing more eternal will ever be built more proudly or more boldly than the flesh of our flesh perfumed with...
Ostroff's touch is also lyrical ("I see your several faces, sculptured, each/An agony too pale for flesh to bear"), occasionally dramatic, now and then humorous. In Sören-Regina, based on Sören Kierkegaard's love for Regine Olsen, whose girl-child beauty haunted him all his life, he combines all his various talents in his wisest answer to the persisting theme of thought v. beauty, mind v. soul: I write, he said. Too stupid to fly, Too impure to do real magic, I, To work the transformation in a wink, Must painfully and tediously...