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...produce upon the reformation of others," declared Seneca in ancient Rome. Over the centuries, many societies came to believe otherwise. The rituals of execution, rooted perhaps in a primitive need for sacrifice, catharsis and revenge, seemed less to cast out the evils of humanity than to feed its blood lust. By the late 18th century, a reform movement had taken hold in Europe, aided by the invention of such "humane" devices as the hanging machine and the guillotine...
...Elisabeth Trissenaar). She sets his nights ablaze with her Lorelei beauty and passion, but she doesn't really love him. She loves making love, and so she exercises her power in one of the few ways open to a woman in 1920s Germany: by becoming an entrepreneur of lust. Promiscuous as a prancing stud, possessive as any hausfrau, Hanni drives "Fatty" Bolwieser to the twin dominatrices of drink and despair. Called to court, the cuckold testifies to his wife's fidelity while she dallies with two of the village's men on the make. Logically enough...
...evolutionary history of Homo sapiens, general patterns of human behavior, the biological basis of gender differences (a delicate subject), and the evolutionary role of language Konner then looks at the implications of behavioral biology's latest contribution to the understanding of seven human emotions rage, fear, joy, lust, love, grief, and gluttony...
...Pentagon. Scheer, who works for the Los Angeles Times, is one of those reporters who can get even the most experienced and cautious public officials to make the most unguarded and self-damaging disclosures, particularly when they are running for President. He got Jimmy Carter to confess lust in his heart in 1976, in Playboy, no less. Scheer induced Reagan, whom he interviewed in 1980, and others now in the Administration to talk with a degree of candor matched only by their imprudence and, sometimes, ignorance...
...each case. Updike's versatility has been achieved at some cost. The rules governing his work have remained consistent and deliberately circumscribed. Wit dominates passion; irony mocks the possibility of tragic grandeur. The feelings most likely to seize Updike's comfortably situated people are nostalgia and lust...