Word: sensuous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make the Metropolitan show possible. Such private collectors as the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, the Morgans, the Mellons, the Baches also contributed. Thirty million dollars was a conservative estimate of the show's total value. Gaping gallery-goers liked best three lush canvases by the father of French postcards, sensuous Francois Boucher (1703-70). Serious painters were most excited by the opportunity to see six first-rate canvases by Jean Honore Fragonard (1732-1806), an artist who antedated the Impressionists by almost a century in their passion for the effects of light and air on color. Other important numbers...
Whimsical...tragic...realistic...exalted...humorous...sensuous...melancholy...cynical...satirical...For joy! for shame! No, 'tis not the Vagabond. Not this time. The little stint this morning has to do with a certain Don Juan hailing from Spain and living many a spicy hour in the land of the Turk; the isles of Greece; the steppes of Russia; even unto Puritanical England...
...girls, tense, neurotic, esthetically inclined individuals whose emotional boiling points were low, were constantly being shaken by brief but elemental passions which were all out of proportion to any apparent cause. In moments of peace and release they seemed to wander over the farmlands in a daze of sensuous awareness, savoring barnyard scenes and country beauties like city people spending their first vacation out of town...
...then stole quickly down the garden path to a door in the old wall. The man opened it, the woman stopped through. He followed her, pulling the door behind him without turning. Over the garden wall, borne back on the fragrant darkness of the night wind, drifted the sensuous laughter of the lovers...
Scene, as well as subject, of course, is the U. S. Time-scheme will run from 1791 to 1933; the first two volumes cover 1884-1925, the last will go back to an earlier beginning. Readers of Look Homeward, Angel will remember its wildly sensuous account of the Gant family. In Of Time and the River Author Wolfe picks up his story, continues his method: he flays real life until the skin is off it and the blood comes. The skin-narrative can be shortly told. Eugene Gant, youngest of his family, at 19 leaves his Southern home and goes...