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...going to get into the business of condemning my fellow man for behavior that I would never in a million years consider imitating myself. My position on the proper place for lust was made painfully clear during my campaign...
...themselves have so much trouble respecting it. Slavery, so obvious in its lurid immorality, is apt to become especially distorted in the hands of American historians. "What is it about the black experience," asks Author Michael Novak, "that produces in so many good minds, black and white, a positive lust for corruptions of elementary sense?" The answers are probably 1) guilt and 2) ideology...
...stops for lunch exactly at noon; resumes filming exactly at 1 and pauses for a 30-minute coffee break precisely at 2:30. Except for night shooting on the outdoor set, the day ends at 4:30. "I am obsessive about films," he says. "I feel a lust while I'm directing, a definite sexual feeling, but I must always struggle to keep my obsession in control...
Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is "sheer nonsense," opined Author Rebecca West. For one thing, young girls in love do not go to their first balls in a "state of lust" like hussars, she argued. The occasion: a 75th anniversary poll by London's Times Literary Supplement of 43 writers, artists and scholars who were asked to name the 20th century authors or books they consider the most overrated-or underrated. Arnold Toynbee and E.M. Forster, it seems, have the most inflated reputations. In addition to Forster, Anthony Burgess cited Andre Gide and Hermann Hesse. J.K. Galbraith called Ring...
...monologues allow a cross-indexing of various aspects of love: lust, friend ship, disinterested affection, good will and gratitude. Edward Henley's antiseptic Don Juanism is a calculated mockery of the mythical passions of a faithful Tristan. Stephen Henley, too, has anesthetized his emotions, by marrying a companion and choosing a church that prizes rationality more than faith...