Word: sensualists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interviewing those paid to care for the elderly, introduces her to many new people. But in an already cluttered, lengthy novel, this endless procession of new characters does little more than add confusion and tedium. Even Isabel's closest friends--Eleanor, a flighty sensualist, and Liz, a strong-willed lesbian--are not terribly interesting until they are forced to confront each other...
...sexual behavior a consequence of syphilis acquired in youth? Possibly, says de Jonge, but Madame Baudelaire was a more likely cause. Charles, an only child, adored her to distraction. His career as a long-distance sensualist began with the click of her jewelry, the textures of her silks and satins, the perfume from her furs. He wrote of "the green paradise of infant love," defining genius as "childhood rediscovered at will." Underneath the mask of decadence, the prematurely aging face with its repertoire of grimaces, was a youth of retarded innocence, a closet Dorian Gray...
...between schizoid contradictions. He fled Dublin but never wrote about anything else. He renounced Catholicism, then cast himself as a higher priest who would transform the bread of common life into art. As these newly released letters show, the aloof classicist also struggled with the dark sensualist. "It is strange," Joyce wrote Nora in 1904, "from what muddy pools the angels call forth a spirit of beauty." Ulysses and Finnegans Wake were to prove him prophetic...
...Saud died and was succeeded by his eldest son, Saud; Faisal was named Crown Prince. An amiable sensualist with little talent for government, King Saud spent so profligately that by 1964 his country was deep in debt. A convocation of elder princes of the family finally packed Saud off into exile and named Faisal King. It was perhaps the most momentous decision that the family ever made...
...19th century painter, not even the great sensualist Delacroix, has affected our unconscious view of women as powerfully as Renoir. This is partly due to the popularity of his work and partly to the unwavering, passionate chauvinism of his feelings about his favorite subject, the nude. Compared with Renoir, even Picasso looks like a feminist. "Look," Renoir explained succinctly to his friend, the dealer Ambroise Vollard, "a painter who has the feeling for breasts and buttocks is a saved...