Word: lusted
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Jack Greenberg tank $15 from a post office; lust May in Federal Court in Mushuttan he drew six months in jail. Howard Laxell 'misapplied' $150,000 from a bank; in the same month in the same courthouse he drew probation...
...wandering before our eyes, the visible phantoms of our souls." We become those elaborately varied creatures, we take their forms. Odysseus' companions were transformed into swine, but in the metamorphosis, their intelligence remained human, unaffected. In reality, when men are transformed into beasts, for whatever reason (anger, greed, lust, drugs), their intelligence is usually very much affected, for the worse. Unlike Odysseus' men, they keep their human forms but assume the character of beasts...
What remained constant in Mao was his iron will, the invincible conviction of his own righteousness. Political analysts harp on two words: "speed" and "struggle." Mao had acquired the lust for speed in the last year of the revolution. In the fall of 1948 the commander in chief of his Manchurian strike forces, Marshal Lin Biao, had seized the key city of Shenyang (Mukden); but so many of Chiang Kai-shek's combat divisions were still at large in Manchuria that Lin Biao preferred to move with caution. Mao overruled him. Strike for the escape ports of Manchuria, he said...
...factors in making the system more responsive to victims is a better understanding of why people rape. The old image of a man's succumbing to uncontrollable (and, to many, understandable) lust, enticed by a provocative woman wearing sexy clothes, is fading, as is the notion that women falsely cry rape...
...renowned and innovative Mercury Theater. In 1955, when this third volume of his memoirs resumes, Houseman is about to rescue the American Shakespeare Festival at Stratford, Conn., after its wobbly first year. He has just finished a stint as a movie producer (Julius Caesar with Marlon Brando; Lust for Life with Kirk Douglas). He goes on to direct some of Playhouse 90's best episodes, then establishes a superior drama department at Lincoln Center's Juilliard School. Most of the time he is working by the light of at least one moon, directing an opera, salvaging somebody else...