Word: sensual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jekyll v. Hyde. Said one woman, listening unaware to her own voice (which other observers described as "tender, shy, lovely"): "A discouraged person, cowardly, and an unstable character." Said another woman, looking at her own hands: "Unintelligent . . . brutally sensual." Cried another, confronted by her handwriting: "The writing is so thin-dash it-that one cannot see it. It makes me quite dizzy. I cannot say anything about this handwriting. . . . No, leave me alone, please...
Says Artist Benton: "Evil and predatory forces are always with us. . . . Humanity must . . . rise up and tear their evil out of them and kill them. For this task, sensual hate, ferocity and brute will are necessary. . . . In these designs there is none of the pollyanna fat that the American people are in the habit of being fed. I have made these pictures for all Americans who will look at them...
...experience, a kiss that would have terrified a weaker man by its implications." From then on she and the hero spend much of their time "on some plane high above all other people in the world in a kind of sulphurous glory, the devastating bond between two purely sensual people who had no sense of sin and knew no shame...
...artist who reduces "passion to a poet's syllable." It ends by culogizing the blunt emotions of love and hate--"the hate that shows us naked . . . the love that cleaves us open-eyed, unmasked, unversed, alive. Voiceless poets released from artifice, whose statement sings in this most sensual peace." One hates to accuse Mr. Abrahams of hypocrisy; but when he lauds the poet "released from artifice," the accusation of poor humor, seems at least fully justified...
...businessman never loved dollars as metal or paper, in the grim, sensual way in which Frenchmen loved francs. The U. S. businessman, in the days before the Revolution, was George Babbitt, a booster-a booster because he was a believer. He believed in money because it represented something else: power, as some called it; freedom, as others called it. Power, freedom and money were an indivisible atom. Therefore, dollars mattered...