Word: sensual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, Braque. The Church has not reached out, as once it would have, to bring them in. And here we have men who speak directly to the people with the same simple power of the great artists of the Middle Ages . . . These moderns are greater than the sensual men of the Renaissance." Father Couturier's superiors were impressed. "See what you can do," they told...
...suggest that he proceed to abolish geometry (invented by a pagan), algebra (influenced by Mohammedans) . . . music (its appeal is sensual), art (unattractive to red-blooded hemen) and . . . that when spring comes-if it ever does to Olivet, Mich.-he keep his students all indoors lest it freshen their blood and create unorthodox notions...
...last thing Stravinsky now wants to do is appeal to the senses. He has come to loathe most of the 19th Century romantic composers except Tchaikovsky and Beethoven, who "was such a tremendous individual." He regards Wagner and his "heroic hardware" as "shamelessly sensual." Stravinsky has taken up arms in a battle as old as art, between the followers of Apollo (art from order and religiously hard work) and Dionysus (art from ecstasy). Stravinsky has ranged himself on Apollo's team...
...inseparable boon companion at Oxford was a little faun called Evelyn Waugh. Though others assure me that he has changed past recognition, I still see him as a prancing faun, thinly disguised by conventional apparel. His wide-apart eyes, always ready to be startled under raised eyebrows, the curved, sensual lips, the hyacinthine locks of hair...
...does not always sin by denying his finiteness. Sometimes, instead, he denies his freedom. He seeks to lose himself "in some aspect of the world's vitalities." This is sensual...