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...toes. In Closing the Ring (Vol. V of The Second World War, at least one more volume to come), there is the same insatiable appetite for knowing the whole score every minute that gives the continuing snap of excitement to the entire work. Subordinates with less than Churchillian lust for living hard in dangerous times could never be sure that the Prime Minister would take their human weaknesses for granted. In April, 1944 he radioed to the British ambassador to Greece: "You speak of living on the lid of a volcano. Wherever else do you expect to live in times...
When old Latin America hands reminisce about bad days in the Caribbean, they usually agree that the 1908-35 regime of Juan Vicente Gómez in Venezuela was unsurpassed in greed, cruelty and lust. Ignorant, fierce-mustached Góomez brought to Caracas' Miraflores Palace the bandit morals of the 19th Century caudillos he admired, the manners of the peon he was, the behavior of the bulls he raised. The nation's treasury and the nation's women were his; he liked to share these boons with his bastard brothers and with...
Irving Stone is one of the U.S.'s most popular writers of so-called biographical novels (Lust for Life, Immortal Wife). This type of novel, Stone explains, "differs from a historical novel in that it does not introduce fictional characters against a background of history, but instead tells the story through the actual people who lived it and helped to make it happen." In other words, while Tolstoy was able to give his imagination a pretty free rein in War & Peace, Stone, applying the biographical method to Andrew and Rachel Jackson, makes it his business to use his imagination...
...Glue of Lust. This time Mailer's jungle is asphalt instead of tropical. Penned in the stuffy cubicles of a Brooklyn rooming house are some of the wrecks and the wreckers of contemporary society. Mock hero of the piece is Michael Lovett, an ex-G.I. with a remade plastic face and a blacked-out memory, the author's symbol for the crippled common man. A writer, "Mikey" Lovett tries to grasp the haunted, hunted relationships around him. Soon he finds that he and the other occupants are stuck together with the glue of lust and politics...
...think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young...