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...proposed Postoffice investigation is further evidence of the so-called liberals' lust for notoriety. The University is indirectly accused of destroying first class mail, and preventing the delivery of the pamphlets. Even if such were the case, there would be small reward to be gained by these men except a selfish feeling of importance at proving a point...
...rowdiest undergraduates, who interrupted his speech by pelting him with paper bags filled with flour, with colored streamers, beans and peppermints, he imperturbably declared: "Unless the people of Europe discard this narrow nationalism that is miscalled patriotism there will be a return to the Dark Ages. The lust for expansion is not quite dead, but the glory of conquest is departing. Its gains are Dead Sea fruit, its legacy bitter memories alone...
SALKA VALKA - Halldor Laxness -Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Caustic realism and old-fashioned sentiment combined in a lengthy sociological history of corruption, lust and political conflict in an Icelandic fishing village. Author Laxness has a weakness for rhetoric, a hand skilled at character dissection...
...flop at the first signs of fire, try to scratch up a few handfuls of earth to hide behind, stare at each other to see who will have nerve enough to follow the commander forward, stumble to their feet, start to run and, the lust and excitement of combat suddenly on them, break into that wild monotone which, in civil life, is heard only in the frenzy of a prison riot...
...Vincent van Gogh, Novelist Irving Stone wrote Lust jor Life (1934). Of Paul Gauguin, Novelist Somerset Maugham wrote The Moon and Sixpence (1919), which by last week had sold over 84,000 copies in the U. S. alone...