Word: lustful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...widow Dufresne (Jo Van Fleet) and her two grown children (Anthony Perkins, Silvana Mangano), because they knew that they were miserable. The picture tells how the little family of French pioneers fought the sun and the sea and the jungle but were slowly devoured by the usual worms of lust and greed and indolence. And in the family's fall is mutely, eloquently epitomized the larger collapse of the French regime beneath what used to be called the white man's burden...
...universal interest in sex. Unlike Kozol, however, he regards it as but one of many expressions available to his characters. While the whole of his story, "The Sign of the Mermaid," focusses on a well-staged orgy (similar to Kozol's in featuring a middle-aged woman's lust for a youthful male), still the orgy is seen in a perspective this side of madness...
...collectors and plain readers of The Darling Buds of May must respectfully disagree with Pop. The story of how Cedric, the tax man, stays for dinner chez Larkin. and stays and stays only to be subverted by food, drink, love and the Larkin clan's infectious lust for life, makes H. E. (for Herbert Ernest) Bates's novel one of the blithest robustious romps of the year. The book's gusto is all the more remarkable coming from welfare-sated England and from 53-year-old Author (The Sleepless Moon) Bates, a writer who in recent years...
...banned under a state statute forbidding the sale of material which is "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent, or which contains pictures of nude or partially denuded figures likely to provoke or arouse lust or passion in persons below...
...salvation is a temptation to spiritual pride. Both religion and science are disposed to make a claim to infallibility. [But] the most virtuous priest may have his virtue corrupted by stupidity and ignorance, and the most intelligent scientist may have his wisdom distorted by pride and arrogance and the lust for personal prestige...