Word: sensuousness
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...fall was symptomatic of a general dislike within the College for mass affairs for which notices are tacked on bulletin boards or printed in the Crimson and everyone is invited to the Straw Hat Ball with promises of "georgeous women, suave men, and soft, sensuous music...
Rachel Cooper is the heroine from whom John and Pearl at last receive the love which they have been denied by their weak and sensuous mother. Mcllowed and not hardened by life, Rachel is the most clearly-defined character in The Night of the Hunter...
Much of this view of life and death is as old as the Stoics and as new as the Existentialists. Where Jean Giono differs from both Marcus Aurelius and Jean-Paul Sartre is in his addiction to verbal color and sensuous imagery. The Horseman on the Roof is an orgy of symbolic corpses, stinks, carrion crows and flesh-eating nightingales, interspersed with involved philosophical breedings and brisked up with epigrams ("Cavalrymen like women to scream"; "I'm afraid of grocers when they have guns"). But. like most contemporary philosophical novelists, Giono makes no real effort to be clear...
...collected enough money ($10,000) to put on his show. Finally, with some friends, he organized a producing company and leased a tiny (299 seats) theater. Thanks to Critic Atkinson and encouraging reviews from other critics (the Herald Tribune's, Walter Kerr spoke of the show's "sensuous excitement . . . warm, intense, illuminating conviction"), the play is a bustling sellout...
...University sang four selections. This Finnish group is composed of much older men than Harvard or Princeton's clubs, and for sheer weight of tone it surpassed them both. The loud passages rang out with amplitude pushed to the point of stridency. This was a marked contrast to the sensuous Harvard sound and certainly far removed from Princeton's pale efforts. But the Finns' precise phrasing, virtuoso soloists, and energetic sound roused the audience to the heartiest applause of the evening...