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...groom, "in the kingdom that I mean united as one family and as one nation indivisible. I mean that this is not a matter of a sample for everybody. . . . But those that are living according to my teaching, they are redeemed from self indulgence and sex indulgence, human affection, lust and passion and all those detestable tendencies...
Destruction is no new thing: our remote ancestors faced destruction from pride, envy, anger, hate, sloth, gluttony, lust, famine, pestilence and violence-just as we do. A cavalier attitude toward personal improvement usually results in personal deterioration...
Oxcart Economy. That has been Paraguay's leading question ever since Dictator Francisco Solano López's, lust for power led Paraguay to defeat in the bloody war with Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil (1865-1870). The debacle of the Chaco War with Bolivia (1929-38) had just about finished the job. It left Paraguay a back-country ruin...
...discover that it is about the same hair-raising war-between-the-sexes that chilled U.S. marrows in The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce. A well-told tale whose deadpan savagery suggests that it was written with the tip of an icicle, it features enough lust and mayhem per page to shame a pulp novel...
...slick grey hair and graceful, precise gestures, he might be a European diplomat of the old school. How such a man at a fateful moment in history came to be the spokesman for millions of Moslem peasants, small shopkeepers and soldiers, is a story of love of country and lust for power, a story that twists and turns like a bullock track in the hills...