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...takes a real man to live it. It is not a matter of lust. To take plural wives, a man doubles, triples or quadruples his responsibilities. He has more problems to solve. He must create a home in which harmony and selflessness prevail. He must provide. And it takes a real saint of a woman. She must overcome human weaknesses. In the polygamous home, there can be no jealousy, no selfishness. The whole family must live for the family, not for individuals. The children are finer. They never acquire the pettiness of other children. They live in a home where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Polygamy Battle | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

...speaker who won respectful attention but little agreement was Manhattan's Mortimer Ostow, 37. He recalled that after observing the violence of World War I, Sigmund Freud revised his basis for psychoanalysis: instead of hunger and lust, which he had previously rated as the fundamental instincts, he postulated love (Eros) and a death instinct (Thanatos). Dr. Ostow made a different proposal. Instead of changing psychoanalysis again to meet the threat of World War III, he suggested that Freud's amended theory be applied to improve mankind so as to ensure peace. His recommendation: analyze all statesmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Thanatopsis, 1955 | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

...when she loses her man to Joan. The luckless man (Barry Sullivan) retires to his room in the mansion house to nurse his bottle and his grudge. His wide-eyed sister, Betsy Palmer, goes out to the stable and hangs herself. Finally. John Ireland, after quivering with rage and lust for 95 minutes, brings things to a happy conclusion by burning himself and Joan alive. Based on a novel by Edna Lee, the film is played as though it were a road company East Lynne, and though packed with synthetic violence, the only thing moviegoers need fear is the flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 5, 1955 | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

...under Israeli fire, Nasser, as he later wrote, reflected: "Here we are in these foxholes, surrounded, in danger, thrust treacherously into a battle we were not ready for our lives the playthings of greed, conspiracy and lust which have left us here weaponless under fire." Said a comrade, "Gamal, the front is not here, it is in Cairo." Nasser turned to the front, plotted a revolution, toppled a king and rose to be ruler of Egypt's 22,500,000, the most powerful, most energetic and potentially most promising leader among the long divided, long misled Moslems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: The Revolutionary | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

...HIDDEN GRAVE, by Peter Hardin (217 pp.; Harper: $2.75), is the story of Gideon, a fortyish, "handsome granite man, huge, subtly balanced." He has cold grey eyes and cropped grey curls. Men bristle with an atavistic hate in his presence, but women lust after him. Why has Gideon come back to a place he has avoided for 20 years? What is the fascinating secret of Helen, now one of the town's leading citizens, who once loved him unreservedly? Why do the hotelkeeper, the banker and the lawyer first fawn upon him, then try to threaten and bully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The New Whodunits | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

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