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Miss Welty has a clean, original prose style, which is clearly self-taught. In one page after another, she turns up sharp landscapes and atmospheres, details of costume, action and speech, with flashes of real brilliance. Her worst fault is her lust for melodrama, of the insidious sort which lies less in violence than in tricked atmosphere...
Before long Ellen was reduced to a soft, whining, pleading, quivering mass of lust and fear-fear of losing Ed. Naturally he tired of this and left her, with studied brutality. Ellen made frantic, shameless, almost somnambulistic efforts to get him back, finally saw no escape from her agony but the night-black waters of Lake Michigan...
...Little did he know or understand the intense love of their homes and country which fills the hearts of Soviet citizens. He was blinded by his own lust for power so that he could not recognize the gallant strength of the Red Army, Navy and Air Force...
...Here is a devil who in the mere spasms of his pride and lust for domination can condemn two or three millions-perhaps it may be many more-of human beings to speedy and violent death. . . . Ah, but this time it was not so easy. . . . For the first time Nazi blood has flowed in fearful flood. Perhaps a million and a half, perhaps two millions of Nazi cannon fodder have bit the dust on the endless plains of Russia...
...nine scholars is Yale's Walton H. Hamilton, Southmayd professor of law. Excerpts: "In an opinion of some 5,000 words . . . the judge rises to every error which opportunity presents. ... At City College there must be nothing said or read about Biblical men who looked with lust upon female flesh. . . . The student body at City College consists of males, chaste or unchaste, some of them over 18, with morals poised so delicately that, if Bertrand Russell expounds mathematics or philosophy, they are impelled to abduct and rape, while if he does not appear in their midst, woman...