Word: lust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is a message of more lasting significances in Shaddeg's book, it may be this: to become President, a non-war hero must not only want victory: he must lust after it. Kennedy, Roosevelt, Truman in '48, all drove themselves relentlessly. Johnson, as we all know, was and is a man obsessed. Goldwater was obsessed too, but with his fuzzy Conservatism and his supposed enemies in the GOP, not with the Presidency
...convinced the other man that she loved him, provoked him into a ruinous financial scheme, deserted him. Novelist Vailland. a sometime Communist who died in May, was also a successful journalist and film scenarist (Les Liaisons Dangereuses). His prizewin-nine novel, The Law, was a compelling study of greed, lust and power politics in a small Italian town. In his present book he aims to tell the ironic, chilling story of a modern Diana who hunts a different species of bulls and bears. Author Vailland seems to think the lady is hot stuff, but most readers will find her just...
...last cornice Dante walks through a wall of fire ("When I was in it, into molten glass/ I would have thrown myself to be refreshed") to burn away his lust, and then passes into the terrestrial paradise, the garden of Eden, where he sees again his beloved Beatrice...
Instead, Buckley said, he would talk about the issues and problems of "the New York that seethes with frustration." His first remarks made no attempt to compromise to the cold realities of politics. He called for "a much larger police force, enjoined to lust after the apprehension of criminals even as politicians lust after the acquisition of votes." He said he would try to help Negroes "by sounder means than undifferentiated infusions of politically deployed cash," and he scorned the idea of helping the Negro "by adjourning our standards as to what is and what is not the proper behavior...
...their befuddled captors, the children soon seem as unlucky an omen as a dead albatross. Horridly adaptable, the youngsters regard lust and violence as spectator sports, cruelty as commonplace. Death itself is a game to them...