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...universal interest in sex. Unlike Kozol, however, he regards it as but one of many expressions available to his characters. While the whole of his story, "The Sign of the Mermaid," focusses on a well-staged orgy (similar to Kozol's in featuring a middle-aged woman's lust for a youthful male), still the orgy is seen in a perspective this side of madness...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: The Advocate | 5/31/1958 | See Source »

...collectors and plain readers of The Darling Buds of May must respectfully disagree with Pop. The story of how Cedric, the tax man, stays for dinner chez Larkin. and stays and stays only to be subverted by food, drink, love and the Larkin clan's infectious lust for life, makes H. E. (for Herbert Ernest) Bates's novel one of the blithest robustious romps of the year. The book's gusto is all the more remarkable coming from welfare-sated England and from 53-year-old Author (The Sleepless Moon) Bates, a writer who in recent years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: British Funhouse | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

...banned under a state statute forbidding the sale of material which is "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent, or which contains pictures of nude or partially denuded figures likely to provoke or arouse lust or passion in persons below...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elis Lose 'Playboy' | 5/16/1958 | See Source »

...salvation is a temptation to spiritual pride. Both religion and science are disposed to make a claim to infallibility. [But] the most virtuous priest may have his virtue corrupted by stupidity and ignorance, and the most intelligent scientist may have his wisdom distorted by pride and arrogance and the lust for personal prestige...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: IN ALL PERSONS ALIKE | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

...clients. It gets 10% from movie stars such as Marilyn Monroe, Gregory Peck, Marlon Brando and Gary Grant; from playwrights such as Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and William (The Dark at the Top of the Stairs) Inge; and from novelists such as James (From Here to Eternity) Jones, Irving (Lust for Life) Stone. It owns or represents such TV shows as Wagon Train, Tales oj Wells Fargo, Jack Benny, Ozzie and Harriet, Alfred Hitchcock, Dragnet and This Is Your Life. Revue Productions Inc., one of M.C.A.'s subsidiaries, is Hollywood's biggest producer of TV films, accounts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: 10% of Everything | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

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