Word: sensuality
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...Renaissance man's splendid sensual joy and lust for life, as expressed by the 16th-Century Italian painter, Piero di Cosimo, in time degenerated into the jaded 19th-Century taste that produced Manet's famed "boy-like courtesan," Olympia...
...main chore: conference of state, sessions of the Fascist Republican cabinet. Of the old gang, Benito Mussolini had few left. Most influential of his fellow puppets: tall, peasant-tough Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, chief organizer of the Fascist Republican Army which helps the Wehrmacht curb restive northern Italy; dapper, sensual Lawyer Alessandro Pavolini, secretary and chief organizer of the neo-Fascist Party; arrogant, church-baiting Roberto Farinacci, the boss of Cremona Province...
...Negro Fire Chief George Bright, who retired to a p?/cch of greasewood, yuccas, sagebrush and cacti, where he built a short-lived Negro Utopia. In his concrete palace, the windows of each room had panes of a different color. Bright liked to gaze at his wife through the "sensual tropical green...
Jekyll v. Hyde. Said one woman, listening unaware to her own voice (which other observers described as "tender, shy, lovely"): "A discouraged person, cowardly, and an unstable character." Said another woman, looking at her own hands: "Unintelligent . . . brutally sensual." Cried another, confronted by her handwriting: "The writing is so thin-dash it-that one cannot see it. It makes me quite dizzy. I cannot say anything about this handwriting. . . . No, leave me alone, please...
Says Artist Benton: "Evil and predatory forces are always with us. . . . Humanity must . . . rise up and tear their evil out of them and kill them. For this task, sensual hate, ferocity and brute will are necessary. . . . In these designs there is none of the pollyanna fat that the American people are in the habit of being fed. I have made these pictures for all Americans who will look at them...