Word: fleshly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Students often complain about feeling out of touch with the subjects they study. For James A. Anderson '86-'87, an East Asian Languages and Civilizations concentrator, it was the desire to see "the flesh and blood behind what I was learning" that prompted his enrollment in a language program at Nanjing University in China...
These twin terrors -- fear of the real and fear of the insubstantial -- are ! the subtexts of most stories designed to make the flesh creep. Yet it has been nearly a century since the brothers James recorded their visions. Surely horror should have become an outdated category by now. Surely science should have driven a stake through its heart. But, no, the genre is, in every sense, the home of the undead. In the '40s Critic Edmund Wilson mused about the persistence of ghost stories: "What is the reason, then -- in these days when a lonely country house is likely...
...shattered the happy sounds of shoppers. "There was simply a noise, very loud, then the screams of the people," recalled a witness. In an instant the sidewalk was littered with the bodies of the dead, the dying and the wounded. Shattered glass, bits of clothing and pieces of human flesh turned the scene into a grotesque tableau of gore and destruction. The toll: five dead and 53 wounded...
...have the time to dictate a letter answering these questions, perhaps you can call me. Thank you for your time in reading this rather long letter. Perhaps it will establish that we are real flesh and blood people with very real problems and not merely a case number. I pray that the agonizing we have done in order to accept the inevitability of this decision has been the worst part of it and we will greatly appreciate anything you can do to ease the finalizing technicalities and to enable us to pick up the fragments of our lives...
Professor of Historical Theology Margaret R. Miles addressed herself to what she called the need for Western man to develop greater respect for the material world and to move beyond the belief that communion with the divine comes through transcendence of the flesh...