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...recognizing only a women's acceptable lighter side, refusing to acknowledge her sexuality, her anger and her tears. I'll be damned if Playgirl falls into that trap." But in fact Playgirl and Viva editors, writers, and photographers acknowledge a woman sexually only as ogled objects of men's lust rather than active reciprocal partners in sexual relationships...
...Vice President admitting criminal activity was shocking enough. But with the gradual, string-by-string unraveling of Watergate, the resulting revelations indicated an astonishing pervasiveness of corruption among Nixon's political and official associates. Theirs was a lust for the enhancement of their leader carried far beyond acceptable limits. That made it all the more menacing to democracy, if less alarming to those who insisted that, after all, nothing was stolen and no one was killed. No fewer than twelve of Nixon's former aides or the hands they hired were convicted of crimes. Six others, including two Cabinet members...
Manipulated Man. Fromm cites evidence to show that man's "malignant" lust for blood is not instinctive. He argues that "cooperation and sharing was a practical necessity for most hunting societies," and that historically, "warlikeness grows in proportion to civilization...
What we don't need now is a hysterical outcry supporting the blood lust of our President's opponents. What we do need is a lot of balance and a proper perspective on the man himself and the job he is doing, not a judgment of guilty based on inference and conjecture...
...Leonid Brezhnev as a friend, many Egyptians privately indicate that their long-range problem is to find a role in the Middle East for the Soviet Union. The Russian relationship with Egypt is one based on necessity. The Egyptians need Russian weapons but spurn the Soviet political system and lust for economic domination...