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...that might well give Khrushchev pause about the forces he has let loose in the party. Khrushchev's "secret" speech (TIME, March 26 et seq.), wrote Fast, "is a strange and awful document ... It itemizes a record of barbarism and paranoiac blood lust that will be a lasting and shameful memory to civilized man . . . Mr. Khrushchev led men of good will to understand that the document itself would be a warning of the monstrous dangers inherent in secret and dictatorial government. I for one looked hopefully but vainly ... for a pledge that the last execution had taken place...
...Lust & Reveries. For about 45 minutes, says Dr. Lilly, he was conscious of his surroundings and of recent events. He even enjoyed the sensation of being suspended in silence and darkness, with nothing whatever to do. But slowly during the next hour he developed an overwhelming "lust" for any kind of stimulus or action. In spite of his intention to keep perfectly still, he made surreptitious swimming motions or stroked one finger with another. Such small delights gave him great satisfaction. He found that if he denied himself all such stimulus, the tension grew unbearable...
Some of the problems of the job are set forth in an interoffice publication whose chapter headings range from "Obstetrics" to "Of necklines, lust and divorce." Complaints pour in daily, blasting NBC for such sins as undermining the language by billing the perry como show in lower-case letters, and subverting the nation by pointing out in Biographies in Sound that George Washington was not perfect. But Helffrich has found that the principal areas of censorship trouble lie in 1) racial hysteria, 2) obvious salaciousness, 3) excessive violence and 4) irresponsible slaps at mental illness...
...transition from the Hitleresque vaudevillain stuff in the mob scene is an act of high poetic terror: he leaps, epileptic with triumph, from his balcony to the bell rope that is tolling in his reign, and down it he goes, twirling like a mad chimpanzee in his surely insane lust to see the first man bend the knee...
...however, Bill Holden has been truly happy at nothing. The tensions of the troubled years are tearing at him still. On the one side is the rampant do-gooder he feels he ought to be, forever inveighing against public lust and private indolence, and especially against all the varieties of flimflam, backscratch and general phoniness in which Hollywood abounds. Yet, on the other hand, Holden is a man who in his time has admittedly fired off as many cannon-crackers as the next...