Word: sensuality
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...told Royo where to add a canvas patch, where to drape a cascade of wool, where to drop coils of fishermen's rope. Says Miró: "Wool and weaving give me a great sensual feeling." Agrees Royo: "When he picks up a skein of wool, he closes his eyes to feel it, and cries, 'C'est formidable...
...struggle to find ultimate meaning in death itself, but in one of McGuane's clever twists, maintains his philosophy and evaluates it in terms of his own identity. Thus, he can speak of death in curiously warm and lighthearted tones because it arouses a gentle fondness for the sensual world he will relinquish...
Lady Fair. A somewhat different view of Tillich's libido appears in another book to be published this month, Paulus (Harper & Row; $5.95). Written by his former student, Rollo May, it suggests that Tillich's pursuit of women was more sensual than sexual. To May, Tillich was in the medieval mold, a throwback to the age of chivalry, an incurable romantic who could scarcely write a book-even his best theology -without at least inwardly dedicating it to some lady fair. He was Teutonically serious about sex; the erotic pretensions of classic pornography attracted him, but he abhorred...
...written books on extramarital sex, crime and divorce, supplemented the pollsters' work with 200 lengthy interviews of his own for a book-length treatment of the survey to be published next spring. In the October issue of Playboy, Hunt summarizes the statistics that point to a newly sensual America...
...same subject that was a long way from being naturalistic." It was a way from which no traveler returned. Nude Descending a Staircase was at once the scandal and centerpiece of exhibitions from Paris to New York. The work was no mere rendering of cubist theory. It was mechanistic, sensual and impudent. It held nothing sacred−not even iconoclasts. Thus Nude performed the heroic task of simultaneously galling public, critics and the avantgarde. At the New York Armory show a reviewer spoke for his fellows when he described it as an "explosion in a shingle factory." Crowds...