Word: lust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...estranged husband, and an ex-doctor who ultimately proves to be her saviour. Though loosely constructed, the plot is not without tension and suspense. Mr. Rattigan's terrific seriousness accounts for much of this, for we are led to believe that far below the surface of interweaving love, lust, and indifference, there is profound moral to be found. There is a moral: "Take a sleeping pill and go in living," and perhaps it is profound, but after all the histrionics which occur on stage, it seems a bit anti-climatic...
...beyond Do What Thou Wilt"-and this Crowley proceeded to do. One of his first acts of freedom was to set "Beelzebub and his 49 servitors" after the leader of the Order of the Golden Dawn. Another was his baking of sacred "Cakes of Light ... to breed lust" in all who ate them. To this period, too, belongs the slim volume of pornographic poems entitled Snowdrops from a Curate's Garden...
...blood-lust drama and socially significant comedy, S. N. Behrman's Jane has the impact of a cork shot out of a pop-gun. For Jane is a return to pre-war English drawing rooms, to a comfortable society which prefers to share Mr. Chamberlin's confidence in Hitler. It is a paradise in which blustering old rakes and acid cynics are the only heavies. Yet, despite its weightlessness, the world of Jane is a highly civilized and amusing place...
Neither Sex nor Lust...
...heartstrings on the cover of a religious story just as much as she does on a magazine cover," then I must have had in mind several provisos. The quotation is okay if we understand that by "a pretty girl" I mean a wholesome, well-clad gal. Sex and lust can never be successful baits for a soul's eternal salvation, and we certainly do not ever intend to use them...