Word: fleshly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Will they be able to resist temptation? Will the honor of the corps be upheld? Will the vows of the spirit hold firm against the fevers of the flesh? Will Hollywood knowingly offend millions of Roman Catholic moviegoers and throw $2,500,000 down the drain...
Moreover, the book involves the young hero with temptation of the flesh, in the person of dark-haired, "cassock-crazy" Paola, niece of the cardinal's chaplain. Victor Mas has not yet taken his vows of chastity, but he struggles heroically. Finally Paola wins...
...this show, to be sure, there are the required number of stately showgirls with whole gardens in their hair, the remembered number of semi-nudes descending the staircase. And as of yore, the flesh is willing; but the spirit is weak. The spirit, in fact, has just about vanished. The songs have no lilt, the lyrics no verve, the sketches no crackle. The dancing has its bits of color and movement, but never the slightest distinction. In such feckless fandangos, the better performers-Billy De Wolfe, Harold Lang and Helen Wood-are largely wasted, while most other performers only make...
...Medicine (cooperating with Sloan-Kettering in the study) injected Novocain, measured an inch and a half below the tattoo mark, and made a neat incision about an inch long across the arm. He folded back the skin above and below it, then cut out a little gobbet of flesh which embraced the site of the implant. All these biopsy specimens were flown to Manhattan for study. From some, it was found, all cancer cells had vanished within the week; in others, a few straggling survivors were detected. Dr. James removed only one of the two implants. The second was left...
...mystery or the morality that gives the play any life. A split-level whodunit should have more concealed and built-in features: who is guilty is very soon obvious, and as a moral drama, The Hidden River lacks flesh and innards. Not only has the problem created the people, instead of the other way round, but the characters are shown too much under mere scrutiny and too little under stress...