Word: sensualism
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...leave the land; he takes it. Living up to it is another matter. The latter half of the novel develops a desperate contest between two types of land-lover - the owner and the enjoyer. For perhaps the first time since Huckleberry Finn, the squatter's anarchic, slovenly, sensual life is presented as enviable. Meanwhile Bushman's son Tarvin and Subrinea Tussie, the length, strength and brownness of whose legs are too often, too favorably mentioned, work out a romance. Tarvin talks like this: "Good mornin'. I'm glad to be here. I've seen...
...ranch house, and the faces and mannerisms of the characters. Each of the minor parts has received superb treatment, each one is true to a certain American type. Betty Field is magnificent as the rancher's pathetic wife, whom Lennie strangles absent-mindedly. Stroking a puppy, disgustedly watching her sensual husband suck up his food, drumming her fingers on the table in frantic boredom, she draws an unforgettable picture of the same frustration and despair of farm life to which Hamlin Garland gave anguished voice...
...important efflorescence of secular music. One can easily appreciate the role of the Puritan Revolution in creating the new spirit. The seventeenth century Puritan, with his austere morality and his mystic absorption in God, could neither enjoy music nor understand its function. To him music was a sensual pleasure, and as such was a barrier to the contemplation of eternal truths. It had no place in the Church service. In this situation one can sense the death-rattle of religious music; already dying, it must have perished unwept when the source that nourished it dried up. With the advent...
...playing the music he loved. He felt clean and invigorated when he heard the Bach which seemed like precise and classically perfect exercises in counterpoint. He smiled an inane smile of satisfaction and pleasure as the rich beauty of Beethoven filled his entire body with a feeling of quietly sensual pleasure. And being so extremely comfortable, he mused in a slow and comfortable manner...
...Prussian War, Rimbaud, who was already writing verse, ran away to Paris. There the penniless poet, little more than a pretty-faced child, slept in a barracks: the soldiers "assaulted" him. This shocking experience, which sent him shuddering home, caused not merely a "revulsion," says Author Starkie, but a sensual "revelation." At home, Rimbaud set out to shock the respectable citizens. He would stroll, dressed like a tramp, down the main street during the sacred apéritif hour, smoking a short pipe and, "what was considered most outrageous of all," smoking it bowl downwards. During the Paris Commune, Rimbaud...