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...seventeen-year-old vixen who, after being seduced by Proctor, plots to have his wife hanged as a witch in order to take her place as mistress of the Proctor farm. Naturally then, there are some typically Gallic seduction scenes that are only implied in the play. The blatant lust of Abigail, brilliantly and demonically played by Mylene Demongeot, completely erases the more insidious evil of the original character...

Author: By Alice E. Kinzler, | Title: The Crucible | 10/6/1959 | See Source »

...very good anyway, and this bothered them"). A man declared that he saw beatniks drinking wine and beer, that he paid admission to attend a life class in the Gas House basement where a nude woman posed, and that he was propositioned by a homosexual. There were tales of lust, drink, and the strange sound of bongos emanating somehow from the sewers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Bam; Roll On with Bam! | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...anything palpably wrong, but because they instead lack insight. We have set out to oppose the forces of repression and to work for understanding. [This leads to] the discovery that the patient or client has been, in effect, too good, that he has within him impulses. especially those of lust and hostility, which he has been unnecessarily inhibiting. And health, we tell him, lies in recognizing and expressing these impulses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sin & Psychology | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...wall of the local church. Their life comes from the sea, and it is the sea that dominates the novel. The heroine worships it, the hero dies in it, and the plain villagers are bounded by it as their neighbors are bounded by olive groves. The young men may lust for Smaragthi. but they lust even more for the sea and the role of boat's captain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Seas of Love | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

What a furor over a mere bathing suit! One is bound to feel sorry for the poor tormented celibates who find such things as girls-in-bathing-suits lust-inciting and damaging to morals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 17, 1959 | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

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