Word: sensuous
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...charmingly pictorial evocation of vague literary atmosphere, a mood induced by the tale rather than an essay dealing with it. The style suffers a little in places from the sort of poeticizing that marred Oscar Wilde's "Poems in Prose," but is one the whole graphic and full of sensuous charm. The first paragraph might have been written by Turgenieff, so vivid is it and so full of the very scent and rustle of a landscape...
...most brilliant French opera, and, even in Germany, the most popular of all operas, Bizet's "Carmen," was presented Tuesday night to a small but responsive audience by the Boston Opera Company in conjunction with the Pavlowa Ballet Russe. The gorgeous wealth of melody and the exquisite sensuous indulgence, to which the work owes its universal appreciation, taken together with its tragic climaxes, make "Carmen" extremely difficult to produce. Although the performance was uneven and disheartening at first, it improved immensely as the evening progressed, and the work may be said to have been on the whole extremely creditable...
...less easy to commend his quest of esoteric effects. The odd meter of "A Lover of Boston" exhibits as tenuous a sense of beauty as his lover's defence of Corey Hill sunsets as a mate for Italian evenings. By contrast in "Bhakata-Yoga" the questionably sensuous imagery veils and almost nullifies the philosophi conception...
...expect, from the introduction, some discussion of standard by which to value present day tendencies, but Mr. Sessions barely ventures on this dangerous ground, suggesting merely, in the course of the article, three critiria--a sensuous appeal, unity of conception, and a harmonic scheme that gives enjoyment. Instead he sets before us the radical, the conservative, and the partisan, counsels us to be none of them, and leaves us with excellent but vague advice. A "radical conservative" would, in all possibility, have ventured further...
...mayor's power of censorship. Leaving out of consideration the wisdom of this particular prohibition, there can be no doubt that there have appeared, unchallenged, numerous dramatic productions calculated to feed on human weaknesses. Such plays as the "Follies" which excite the baser passions of mankind by their sensuous dances and flippant jests in regard to breaches of the Seventh Commandment and to drunkenness have been allowed to vulgarize and debase their audiences...