Word: sensually
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Author Nikos Kazantzakis died last year at 74, he was known to U.S. readers mostly for his novel Zorba the Greek, a flashing testament to the proposition that every minute of life should be lived to the sensuous, sensual hilt. At least twice, reportedly, he failed to win the Nobel Prize by the narrowest of margins. By taking for his own the name of Homer's poem, by adopting Odysseus as his own hero, Kazantzakis has underlined the audacity of his undertaking. His 33,333 lines measure its vastness. But the poem's real boldness lies...
...immense green stretches of vista, the tall poplar rows iridescent against the sky, the sensual green of the sunbathed leaves--and, then, the sudden blue swathe of the indescribable Loire, broad and slow and stately--moving with easy grandeur through the ancient terrain" seem hard to read. His lovers often speak in terms of "Whooooosh," "Buffle, Buffle," and "Squuunch," which are things you would have overheard through thin bedroom walls in the hotels of New York, Paris and Barcelona, had you followed their jet-paced trek...
Masculine Males. What perhaps warmed U.S. audiences most was the robust, open humor and friendliness, the sunny exuberance that blew through the whole performance. The full-bodied Russian girls were ingenuously sensuous without being sensual. The men-possibly the most masculine male dancers ever to kick a leg in Manhattan-performed their muscle-twisting feats witha pure animal joy of movement rarely seen on the stage. Wrote Critic Harold Clurman: "The qualities these dancers possess are those we [Americans] like to claim as our own when we feel ourselves to be at our best...
...Lost, a 14-year-old daughter of divorced parents falls victim to the selfish misunderstanding of her mother. Unfolded in a sensuous South of France setting, it is a harrowing case history in which innocent young love is turned into a crushing, puzzling sin by adults whose sensual greeds have corrupted them to the point of monstrousness...
...German dive bombers roared off into the sky, and the stocky young woman-one of countless uprooted victims of the Nazi armies advancing into France-scrambled out of the ditch. Said calm Mathilde Carré to a companion: "There's almost a sensual pleasure in real danger, don't you think? Your whole body seems suddenly to come alive...