Word: sensually
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Debussy: Trois Chansons de Bilitis; Ravel: Chansons Madécasses (Jennie Tourel, mezzo-soprano; Columbia, 2 sides LP). An accomplished artist gives a six-song lesson in how to sing French. Debussy's love songs are poignant; Ravel's are sensual. Recording: excellent...
Johnson accepted brawling as routine, but he was by no means tolerant of other kinds of misconduct. Before his marriage, he carefully entered in his account books 50? expenditures for "Sensuality" and "Sensual Pleasure"; afterward, such entries stop. As a respectable father (ten children), he was roused by the rascalities of a French wencher, hoped that "Some Gentleman would only Cetch the Low minded Dog and Cow hyde him well." Sadly he reports: "A Mr. - was caught in bed with Mr. Parkers old Big Black woman Buster and a Mr. - was Caught in bed with old Lucy Brustie, Hard times...
...corners would catch the plumes in their hats." Few prospective buyers took notice of Laurens' experiments in wood and stone. In the '20s, Laurens began smoothing his angles and swelling his planes into ripe curves. "I felt I was drying out," he explains. "I wanted something more sensual. I wanted to do the things that laugh, above all what there is in a truly feminine woman. Cubism was too strict. I wanted to humanize." Trips to the Brittany sea-coast increased his affection for billowing curves. Sitting on the beach he decided, "The sea has a good thumb...
Pumpton was a C-plus, B-minus student in the Class of 1947. He was somewhat alcoholic, somewhat sensual, more or less athletic, and rather scholarly in courses that he enjoyed. He was, in fact, average...
...present civilization is destroyed-not by the atom bomb (which Shaw thought would not be used), but by an improved version of an old-fashioned poison gas. As Shaw saw it, men will go onward & upward until they learn how to live on air, to get the same sensual pleasure from the pursuit of pure knowledge which their gross fathers got from the pursuit of other things, and finally to take leave of their bodies, becoming a species of intellectual angels. Then, a new race will develop, remarkably like the old, all set to start the whole business over again...