Word: lustful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hours drinking beer and arguing furiously with newsmen or fellow politicians. He reads three to four books a week: currently, besides Robert Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins, he is devouring a heap of volumes on a new interest, Africa. He has not lost his lust for Latin. On an indifferently argued staff paper he scribbles: "0 sancta sim-plicitas...
...Lust for Lies. The choice is significant; to Keller the state is not necessarily a higher concern than art, but serving the state is a high honor, and bohemianism a worthless existence. It is not hard to see the beginning of Germanic nationalism in the fascination that order, group effort and government have for Keller and the Swiss and German townspeople he describes. The author is at his most rhapsodic as he tells of the incredible organization of a pre-Lenten carnival, or rambles on about a dream in which Identity of the Nation is represented by crowds tramping purposefully...
...continuing Lolita boom. But Laughter in the Dark only superficially resembles Lolita; it is closer to the Heinrich Mann novel that became The Blue Angel, the famed Marlene Dietrich film of the same general setting and period. At its loftiest, Nabokov's theme is the degradation, by lust, of dignity and intellect-Shakespeare's "expense of spirit in a waste of shame...
...Miller, an encyclopedic, Hungarian-born historian who teaches sociology at Manhattan's Hunter College, produced a soberly symbolic essay on the fatuity of war. Wider in scope, The Silver Bacchanal reveals man as an Absurd Animal, torn between hope and despair, ideal love and an insatiable lust. Fü;p-Miller's instrument of dissection is irony, e.g., the army's bureaucratic campaign against disease-carrying houseflies, in which the city is divided into sectors manned by bumbling brigades of swatters. But the laughter evoked is hollow; the comedy is as cheerless as the triptychs...
After reminding everybody that Queen Elizabeth herself follows the nags, Dean Baddeley said: "The real problem is not gambling as such, but avarice and lust for money. My enjoyment was not in winning money but in seeing my choices win. I had a perfectly wonderful...