Word: lustful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...juicy Condon touch. He offers several: a skirt-chasing captain in Cortes' army, for instance, writes a diary of his conquests and amuses himself by alleging it to be the confessions of the god Quetzalcoatl. Outraged Aztecs set upon the blasphemer and his descendants the curse of undying lust. Telling of it, one weary descendant, a rancher who at 67 requires the constant attention of 18 concubines, "seemed to collapse within himself. His face was newly dented with grief like a loaf of bread a giraffe has kneeled upon...
...occasionally a melodrama-of incomprehension. The judges who try Dominique refuse to believe that she shot her man in blind despair growing out of her love for him, not premeditated spite. They listen stolidly when her defense attorney tells them that she had been treated heartlessly, hide flickering lust with censoriousness when the prosecution relentlessly details her love affairs. Hopelessly, she lashes at the judges: they are old men in silly robes, they cannot understand, they are dead. That night she commits suicide, and the next morning the judges stare at one another in a final communion of opacity...
...think it horrible that lust and rage...
...troubles. The whites cannot even withdraw gracefully; they are paralyzed by native hatred that scarcely attempts to hide its emotions. And what the country faces when the British do leave is all too obvious. Kofi Bandaya, a Lumumba type, runs the People's Progressive Party with a lust for power that is at least equal to his need for humiliating the whites. His "action troopers" care as little for African lives as Hitler's cared for those of decent Germans, and a worried fellow "revolutionary" who accuses him of taking lessons from Mein Kampf meets an appropriate...
Spouting Matthew 5:28 ("Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart") and calling Salome "devil, slut, harlot," she tries tempting George herself and beckons him to "go through the holy fire" with her. George not only spurns Sister Mercy, he whops her good...