Word: sensualism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among those in the dock was Heinz Hermann Koch, 32, a foolish grin on his heavy, sensual face. Koch had once been a Stuttgart hairdresser. "But I didn't like being a hairdresser," he told the court. "I wanted women, drink, money. So I joined the Gestapo...
Readers readily admitted that there was nothing about the Autobiography so shamelessly coarse as the current novels by young Thomas Hardy (whose fictional county of "Wessex" was slowly replacing Trollope's "Barsetshire"), nothing so sensual and pagan as the lyrics of up-&-coming Poet Oscar Wilde, nothing so effete as the art-for-art's-sake of Oxford's esthetic Walter Pater...
...types. One is Buzzy Bellew, hard-glazed headliner at the Pelican Club, half insane with self-appreciation; the other is Buzzy's super-identical twin brother Edwin, a meek, bleak, gentle tome-prowler who spends most of his time at the Public Library, and adequately maps out his sensual life When he tells a pretty librarian (Virginia Mayo): "I love the smell of leather bindings...
...ordinary laws. He was the last of the aristocrats in a world being turned over to mob rule. He followed his exquisite sensations wherever they might lead him; personal excess was his right. Poet Baudelaire managed to combine all the ideals: he smoked hashish, lived with Negresses, wrote brilliant, sensual, satanic poems. But, as an aristocrat, he dressed immaculately in the British manner and learned to drop phlegmatic monosyllables out of the corner of his mouth...
...City of Dreadful Night) crept starving to the bed of a blind friend, who stretched out his hands and withdrew them covered with the blood of Thomson's fatal hemorrhage. Simeon Solomon died in a poorhouse; consumption killed Ernest Dowson (Cynara) at 33. Brilliant Aubrey Beardsley, whose delicate, sensual illustrations for Wilde's Salome became more famous than the play itself, died of tuberculosis, complicated by high living, at 25, leaving a curt, harrowing letter to a friend...