Word: fleshly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...siege of Harfleur, Henry roars at assembled elders of the town: I will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur Till in her ashes she lie buried. The gates of mercy shall be all shut up, And the flesh'd soldier, rough and hard of heart, In liberty of bloody hand shall range With conscience wide as hell, mowing like grass Your fresh fair virgins and your flow'ring infants...
...Noon, and for several of her short stories. Even more pungent and persuasive, however, are her evocations of Australia and of English middle-class society in The Transit of Venus. Of Grace and Caro's Australia, Hazzard writes: "To appear without gloves, or in other ways suggest the flesh, to so much as show unguarded love, was to be pitchforked into brutish, bottomless Australia, all the way back to primitive man. Refinement was a frail construction continually dashed by waves of a raw, reminding humanity...
...astonishingly literate men in attendance. From a distance of 100 years, Henry Adams, normally a man of elegant bitterness, looked back at that primal national moment: "Stripped for the hardest work, every muscle firm and elastic, every ounce of brain ready for use, and not a trace of superfluous flesh on his nervous and supple body, the American stood in the world a new order...
...became a patron for a special group. The most grotesquely appropriate, perhaps, is St. Lawrence, the patron saint of cooks and restaurateurs, who, so legend says, was grilled to death over a slow fire in A.D. 258. St. Lawrence is said to have mocked his tormentors by saying, "My flesh is well cooked on one side. Turn the other...
...fifth set, more than three hours after both players began running in the broiling sun, it is will that wins the final points. Borg is will made flesh. He says: "It does not matter if I am so tired that I do not think I can take one more step, I will not give up that point. I am too stubborn. I will keep going...