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...beyond Do What Thou Wilt"-and this Crowley proceeded to do. One of his first acts of freedom was to set "Beelzebub and his 49 servitors" after the leader of the Order of the Golden Dawn. Another was his baking of sacred "Cakes of Light ... to breed lust" in all who ate them. To this period, too, belongs the slim volume of pornographic poems entitled Snowdrops from a Curate's Garden...
...blood-lust drama and socially significant comedy, S. N. Behrman's Jane has the impact of a cork shot out of a pop-gun. For Jane is a return to pre-war English drawing rooms, to a comfortable society which prefers to share Mr. Chamberlin's confidence in Hitler. It is a paradise in which blustering old rakes and acid cynics are the only heavies. Yet, despite its weightlessness, the world of Jane is a highly civilized and amusing place...
Neither Sex nor Lust...
...heartstrings on the cover of a religious story just as much as she does on a magazine cover," then I must have had in mind several provisos. The quotation is okay if we understand that by "a pretty girl" I mean a wholesome, well-clad gal. Sex and lust can never be successful baits for a soul's eternal salvation, and we certainly do not ever intend to use them...
...Author Lamb tells their story, the peasant emperor loses in stature and the prostitute empress takes on a regal aspect. Justinian is seen as a dull, lifelong scholar, a grubber for facts, a physical coward with an insatiable lust for power. He seldom left his palace, and depended on his great commander, Belisarius, to defend the empire. Of his many great projects, only two fully succeeded: the Justinian Code and the building of the magnificent Church of St. Sophia...