Word: lust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ROOTS OF AMERICAN COMMUNISM, by Theodore Draper. The first volume of an important history by an ex-Communist who has both the objectivity and the dogged patience to tackle the subject. No joy for the casual reader, it offers a sober account of Communism's lust for power, and of the incredible nonsense involved in Communist theory...
...both wildly improbable and somehow too close for comfort, is now dated in its assumption, now faded in its effects. But what Critic William Archer once called "the most bestial play in all literature" is still, of its own kind, one of the best. To its exhaustive display of lust it brings an often matching demonstration of lustiness. Nor did Wycherley write it only to amuse or titillate; even as it leers, it looks people up and down, even as it romps, it indicts...
From Terence, Wycherley took a hint for his chief character, a London rake named Horner, who, to make lust easier, spreads the report that he is impotent. At once husbands contemptuously allow him access to their wives, and soon the secretly gloating Horner has a harem. From Molière's L'Ecole des Femmes, Wycherley took his ingenuous young country wife, who is not quite carefully enough guarded by a jealous husband, and who proves as eager a pupil as Horner is a teacher...
...flag retroactively over the American Revolution. He "saw the Communists as the bravest and most skillful fighters for man's freedom." Now he says, "I was mistaken," but it took him nearly 14 years-until Khrushchev's mid-1956 "secret report" of Stalin's "paranoiac blood lust"-to realize his mistake. His fumbling book of remorse and recantation is pervaded by pathos. "Why?" he keeps asking in hurt, "say-it-ain't-so, Joe" tones, but Joe long ago gave the definitive answer: "The truncheon-beat, beat, beat, beat, and then beat again...
...call Augustine a 'sexually repressed monk' is just too funny. Have you read his Confessions'? Parts of it are better than Confidential. But the point is that, through wrestling with the problem of sexual lust, he came to discover God, and to discover himself in the presence...