Word: lustful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doctrine slowly spread through the lands of the faith. Sharply countering Moslem fatalism, the 19th century philosopher Al Afghani preached ijtihad (self-exertion), urging Islam to adapt to the currents of change in the modern world. India's Ahmadiyya movement helped revive Islam's long-dormant lust for converts. Twentieth century nationalism gradually brought independence, and a new spirit of confidence, to Islamic countries of Africa and Asia...
...tells of suppressed obsessions, impulses not acted out quite, but lived on the edge of, destruction of the malignant in oneself, in what one loves, suicide and murder. Mostly, perhaps he tells of intercourse, intercourse with oceanic climax, coming in waves not of love, but of something between lust and pure aestheticism. All of the sex is magnificent, art, but written with the bristle of one who has also known...
...artfully photographed peep show by Director Roger Vadim (And God Created Woman). In 1950 France's Max Ophuls made La Ronde, a subtle, deliciously graceful film based on Arthur Schnitzler's period play Reigen. Without losing the rueful cynicism of the original, Ophuls described the efficacy of lust through ten amorous intrigues involving five men and five women. A prostitute takes a soldier. The soldier takes a chambermaid. The chambermaid takes a young man. And so on, until the last lover completes the cycle in the prostitute...
Square Johns. As his lust for speed and adventure finally lessened, Sands settled into a series of jobs as a sales executive and sometimes as a song-and-dance entertainer. Though financially successful, Sands felt drawn back to prison to try to teach convicts something 80% of them fail to learn-how to stay out of prison once they are released. Making ends meet by part-time work as a writer and speaker, Sands has been crisscrossing the U.S. for the past three years, addressing convict audiences and setting up rehabilitation programs in prison...
...Overmastering Lust. Yet Julian's real mistress is the great river. As soon as he can shove politics aside, he presses on to the Concession territory itself; this voyage of discovery, upriver for more than a thousand miles by steamship and motor launch, is the central theme of the book. Cora Almeida is put aboard by her husband to seduce Julian away from his loyalty to the Concession. The temptation is painful; in bracing contrast to most fiction today, it is overmastered by youthful lust for adventure and exploration...