Word: sensuousness
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...attributing of sensual or spiritual qualities to music itself is an arbitrary thing indeed. Since extreme religiosity is a diversion of sensuality, it seems not unsuitable that so-called sensuous music be used as a means of stimulating religious fervor. But music itself has no real erotic influence on human beings other than that created by association...
Samuel Barber: Capricorn Concerto (Saidehberg Little Symphony, Daniel Saidenberg conducting; Concert Hall Society, 4 sides). Scored in Bach's concerto grosso style for flute, oboe and trumpet solo plus strings, it smacks more of Stravinsky than Bach, has a sensuous eeriness typical of some of Barber's later works...
Unexpectedly the most workmanlike part of the magazine, the poonis are rich in restrained, suggestive imagery. Richard Wilbur's "Objects" is a related act of impressions, studded with vivid, sensuous imagery. In "Objects" and in his other two poems, Wilbur handles both rhyme and rhythm with subtlety and originality. "A Sermon," by John Ashbery, comments inclusively on a Bibical passage in terms of the frustration and spiritual blindness of modern society...
...Sultry, sensuous Chloe Delaplain, 18, flew into a rage. "Obscene-obscene picador," she screamed that day in 1875, in a voice that shook the Delaplain brownstone mansion in Brooklyn, N. Y. Selfish sister Ellen, 22, paid no heed, hummed tralala, wrinkled her "grotesque and powerful" nose, turned to give a gracious welcome to Homer Henshaw, a Harvard man. There was nothing left for Chloe" to do but to walk in the family garden. Almost before she knew it, handsome Gerrit Van Fleet was "grinding his blonde mustache into her lips...
Quivering Detail. Most of the action took place at the "Tokyo Correspondents' Club" at No. 1 Shimbun Alley, the official billet for foreign correspondents. Hoberecht got most of its residents, and even its houseboys, between his covers. Added attraction: some sensuous illustrations by Artist Tsuguharu Fujita, billed as the first kissing scenes ever to adorn a Japanese novel. Since Japanese are unaccustomed to Western-style embraces, Hoberecht went into what he calls "great, quivering detail." (To one hot-blooded chapter the publishers added a solemn subtitle: The Ethics of Kissing) Last week, as his royalties piled up from Tokyo...