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...mental vivisection, such as Playwright O'Neill displayed in Strange Interlude, were disappointed, too. Prime point of criticism of Mourning Becomes Electra is its bareness. Six hours is a long time to have to sit and watch a family obliterate itself, motivated by unrelieved hatred and lust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Greece in New England | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

...Thank God for Him." If the Laborites turned from him lust week, there were thousands of good British citizens who were prouder of their Prime Minister last week than they had ever been. James Louis Garvin, editor of The Observer (and the Encyclopaedia Britannica) is seldom given to exuberance. Last week he wrote of James Ramsay MacDonald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: War all Over | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...race antipathy is implanted by nature and not the effect of social causes which are active in every closed social group, no matter whether it is racially heterogeneous or homogeneous." He offered as proof the willing miscegenation of whites, Indians and Negroes in Central and South America, of white lust for Negro slave wenches in the oldtime U. S. South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Summer Meeting | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

...talked, Peter Kuerten's eyes often winked rapidly, his hands often fluttered. "These symptoms," Teuton psychiatrists at the trial told Teuton reporters, "betray a lust to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Nine-Lived Fiend | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

Asked when he committed his first murder, Kuerten said reminiscently, "Just before the War, in 1913 at Mulheim near Cologne. I had entered a house to rob, but I found a little girl there asleep.* I forgot my intention of stealing as a blood lust came over me for the first time. I strangled her. Then I cut her throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Nine-Lived Fiend | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

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