Word: sensuality
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...women ("What a curious, inconsistent thing is the mind of man!"), and London prostitutes found him an easy conquest. What seemed at first a discreet affair with an actress brought him down with a venereal disease that kept him under treatment for five weeks. But nothing could discourage his sensual appetite for long, and the Journal is thick with accounts of his cheap and hasty liaisons. Boswell had been .in London less than two weeks when he got news from Scotland that he was the father of a son, the result of a brief affair in Edinburgh. The child died...
Summer in a Tangerine. In the years preceding the first World War he hopscotched furiously about Europe-Rome, Berlin, Venice, Madrid-in pursuit of inspiration. Soon his New Poems and The Notebooks of Malte Laurīds Brigge were making him the talk of European intellectuals. From his large, sensual mouth came a flood of such poetic fancies as his description of a tangerine, "in which a summer is folded up very small like an Italian silk handkerchief in a nutshell...
Pumpton was a C-plus, B-minus student in the Class of 1947. He was somewhat alcoholic, somewhat sensual, more or less athletic, and rather scholarly in courses that he enjoyed. He was, in fact, average...
...Scheherazade" is a colorful and agitated ensemble work that does not stress the individual dancer so much as the group's effect. Here the corps de ballet shows its special profficiency; for in "Scheherazade" the spectacle of the whirling, sensual dance is important, not stylistic perfection. In this dance the orchestra is missing much of the turbulence called for by Rimsky-Korsakov's score. In this respect the musicians mirror the essential weakness of the entire company; after many years on the road it is difficult to muster the great enthusiasm first class ballet requires. Nevertheless, the Ballet Russe...
...Sensual & Sinister. Last week, Baritone Schoeffler capped his first season at the Met with a crack performance of the sensual and sinister Scarpia in Puccini's Tosca. When he was onstage with his longtime Vienna State Opera friend, red-haired Soprano Ljuba Welitch (as Tosca), the audience saw and heard the kind of sure, smooth action and singing that make Vienna's ensemble just about tops in the operatic world...