Word: sensuous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ever the stage was set for a masterpiece, it was at the start, of the Stuart rule. The Hebrew text of the Bible, with vocabulary "simple and sensuous", is itself supremely translatable. St. Jeronie's Vulgate formed a bridge into the Latin. Wycliffe, Tyndale, and Coverdale had blazed the English trail. And the forty seven scholars, the most learned that England could boast, carried in them the spirit of the age. It was the age "of Shakespeare's London and the ships of the Elizabethan voyagers-- of men whose language was as vivid and as virile as their lives." Small...
...audience grew dreamy over Sasha's singing, sensuous delivery of the Franck sonata. More cold-blooded listeners felt that here Culbertson lacked clarity, tended to lose himself in lyric effects. As always he did best with Bach, made every variation in the Chaconne marvelously clear and incisive. Sensing that Sasha Culbertson was nervous over his second debut, critics deferred judgment. Friends of Violinist Culbertson were not surprised at his nervousness. Sasha has always been as retiring as his bridge- playing brother, Ely Culbertson, is bold. Though both Culbertsons were born in Eastern Europe, they are Sons of the American...
Playing his part with enormous gusto against handsome Dutch sets, Actor Laughton dominates Rembrandt, gives one of his finest performances at a dignified pace which well befits the life of his noble, if somewhat ribald, model. Best shot: Sonorous Painter Rembrandt rolling off a long, sensuous soliloquy defining Woman, while the mouths of stolid Dutchmen flap open and servant girls go glassy-eyed with dreams...
Ganso's nudes are more frankly sensuous than those of Pascin, his color is stronger, his line less subtle. Jealous rivals have called him the "Rembrandt of barroom decorators."* As a matter of fact, no barroom yet boasts a Ganso nude, and Artist Ganso is quite as interested in painting the rolling hills, farms and orchards of Woodstock, N. Y., where he spends his summers, as he is in the lush ladies who pose for him in the winter time in Manhattan...
Readers who reach this point of Author Santayana's narrative are likely to remain to the end. As Oliver develops intellectually under the stimulus of his father's conversation, he also develops physically in a simple sensuous joy of living under the influence of the sea, of sport, of life on the lovely ship. But as he awakens to the world, Oliver also becomes aware of depths of mystery and misery that lie beneath the summer surface of reality. His father's companion and servant is Jim Darnley, engaging, unscrupulous, intelligent Englishman who has left the British...