Word: sensuously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...salute like Caesar, scowl like Napoleon, wear uniforms like the Kaiser. Of all his Cabinet portfolios, his favorites were those of War, Navy, Air Force. He raised a whole generation of young Italians-among them his own sons -to live dangerously, to consider pacifism a bourgeois vice, to take sensuous, esthetic pleasure from the pattern of exploding bombs and the music of gunfire. He told them time & again that supine neutrality is a cowardice fit only for decadent democracies...
...play-by-play description of the dim mental processes of the brothers-perhaps the most authentic imbeciles in U. S. letters-and of their borderline methods of staying alive. Author Litsey slops over a few times. But few books have matched his for its communication of utter loneliness, its sensuous clarity, its grave and unforced pity, the unpremeditated purity of its telling...
Richard Llewellyn is one more of those writers who love their common native speech and who use it with a sensuous efficiency which, in its verbal splendor, its folksy lilt and whine, approaches literary affectation. Yet in this, his first published novel (he has destroyed five), he has developed a hypnotic ability to do precisely what he pleases. His Morgans, those they live among, the country they inhabit, every incident, every reflection Huw Morgan ventures on the whole matter, have an even radiance and euphony plus a rock-bottom tangibility. If it be only would-be great How Green...
Personal and harshly bitter though the book is in essence, it sets up with uncommon sensuous clarity a country and a people: Ogden's father, in one of the few gentle gestures of his life, caressing his mother's new grave with the flat of his shovel; "a fat untidy young woman, loose around the waist as a sack of duck feathers"; a man who, catching his wife in adultery, "fired a shot into the ceiling, and then he began to weep, assuring Jinny he wouldn't hurt a hair of her head...