Word: sensualism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Emily Dickinson frequently combines the abstract and the concrete in such images as "amethyst remembrance," and "the blue and gold mistake of Indian Summer," MacLeish noted. By skillful use of tone she is then able to make these sensual counterweights to her ideas seem true...
...Aldo Meyer, a Jewish doctor and humanist who plays a reluctant Judas to Nerone. There is Nerone's mistress who bore his bastard son and who nightly kneels before his bloody, bullet-torn shirt. The boy, now a troubled adolescent, is himself the prey in a vicious, sensual tug of war between a neurotic drug-taking contessa and a homosexual English painter. Without Author West's innate good taste, these characters might be merely sordid and sensational; he keeps them in the perspective of human frailty and suffering. As Meredith probes on, the proofs of Nerone...
DEPILATORIES. "A number of shots of women's legs after successful application of a depilatory seemed more an attempt to arouse the sensual attentions of the television viewer than a demonstration of the efficacy of the product...
Herding their cattle over the grassy uplands rolling down from Kilimanjaro in what is now Kenya and Tanganyika, the Masai were fierce, sensual warriors who used dung and ochre for hair oil and drank cattle blood laced with urine. In periodic sport they swooped down on their Bantu neighbors, ramming seven-foot spears through the males and carrying off their women, who often did not seem to mind; the tall, aristocratic Masai were notable men, and Masai wives did not work...
...Times is right. Popular music evokes too many sensual associations to be much good as stimulus to meditation, spiritual or otherwise. The situation is aggravated on the recording by the arrangements of Peter Knight, although Mr. Knight has obviously done his best to keep a straight face. The chorus croons Kyrie Eleison over a lulling beguine rhythm, as bongos patter softly and violins execute Viennese glissandos. The whole idea has strong overtones of a collegiate hoax, but Fr. Beaumont has apparently convinced many people that the matter must be approached with deadly seriousness...