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...should be great, for it has to represent Harvard drama to all the old grads and old undergrads blanketing Cambridge this week. It has something for everyone--lively acting, sharp singing, and lots of healthy lust...

Author: By Gregory P. Pressman, | Title: The Beggar's Opera | 6/14/1965 | See Source »

...soon Radical Republicans, motivated by hate, greed, and lust for power, wrested control from Johnson. They shed crocodile tears for Lincoln and rammed through a plan for Reconstruction which raped the South, using Negroes as puppets to plunder and destroy. Finally, in 1877, the last military governments were dismantled, leaving the South in the hands of virtuous whites and race relations in permanent tatters...

Author: By Ben W. Heineman jr., | Title: Revising Thoughts on the Irreversible | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

...kind of erotic robber bar On, Baal squeezes the juices of life, love and lust out of other men's wives, friends' mistresses and such virgins as the one played by Flora Elkins- and then casts them aside with savage contempt. He is always raving drunk and ravenously sex-hungry, at one point taking two sisters to bed at the same time. Between these bouts of insane carnality, he cheats, lies, steals, and spouts some embarrassingly inflated rhetoric at the sun, trees, sea and sky. The only being he seems to care for is a homosexual composer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Eros Degraded | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

Died. Edgar Austin Mittelholzer, 53, English author of 22 novels, many of them (Children of Kaywana, The Harrowing of Hubertus, Kaywana Blood) set in his native British Guiana and peopled by members of the violent, lust-crazed Van Groenwegel family; by his own hand (he soaked his clothing in gasoline, then set himself aflame); in Farnham, Surrey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 14, 1965 | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

...Mussolini's son Vittorio once expressed the "enjoyment" he felt when he bombed a cluster of Ethiopians. Now Captain Lee of the U.S. expresses the same savage emotion. In the nuclear age, this kind of blood lust will result in the evaporation of Lee-and thee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 7, 1965 | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

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