Word: virginal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seconding point one, Emily D. Vermeule, Zomu?ray-Stone Radcliffe Professor, met with general approval when she read a quote in Greek. Translated, what it said was, "She is a virgin from the neck up - a woman below...
...blizzard of linguistic barbarisms ("cain't," "we's"), Humbard usually deals in congenial pleasantries about the love of God and what it can do. He touches doctrine only in passing. "People know I'm old-fashioned enough to believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God, virgin-born and resurrected," he explains; he just prefers to stress "moral truths." Though he worries about such national problems as drugs and pornography, Humbard tries to preach positively. "Seek the Savior," he urges, in his usual simplification of the evangelical message, and all other moral problems will solve themselves...
...this point the film threatens to trail off into rich boy-poor girl romance. But suddenly Jacques fades from interest; the story jumps forward five or six years; and the direction of the narrative changes completely. Marie is no longer the poor (but honest) farm girl, virgin down to the calluses on her bare feet. Now, openly contemptuous of her father's self-inflicted integrity, she has taken to sneaking off to the woodshed with Gerard, leader of an adolescent gang that rides around on motorbikes...
...self-consciously the moral virgin and too facile with her received wisdoms and doubts, Gloria is far less lovable than such fictional older sisters as Christopher Isherwood's Sally Bowles (I Am a Camera) or Truman Capote's Holly Golightly (Breakfast at Tiffany's). Herlihy's lively stock characters and head-shop props come directly from Aquarius Central. Yet The Season of the Witch has its appeal, especially if regarded not as an adult book but a contribution to an as yet nonexistent publishing category-groovy books for juveniles...
Also in the Early Italian Room is a five-panelled work by Simone Martini, The Madonna and Child, With Four Saints. This work is the only complete Martini altarpiece of so large a size that exists outside of Italy; this was another Berenson acquisition. The panels' depiction of the virgin and saints anticipates the poetry of a later Italian artist, Modigliani...