Word: lustful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They have been denounced to the police, and a surveillance has been mounted. The dread nether god Hades decrees that twelve of the poets shall be seized by a parapolice murder gang. Can Hades be tricked into abandoning his evil intention by the underworld nymph Mintho and Hermes, the lust distracted messenger god? Are the gods, in fact taking proper care of their silly, self-important human charges? Good questions, written it seems with a shaking hand, but proof read perhaps with a hopeful, some what unpracticed smile...
Statistics show capital punishment does not deter crime. What use, then, does it hope to fulfill? Criminals don't learn lessons from being killed. Killing a criminal doesn't bring back his victim. Perhaps its purpose is not to punish a criminal's guilt but to satisfy society's lust for revenge. The late Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas wrote in his autobiography, "Capital punishment is barbaric...its only value is the organism of delight it produces in the public...
Since capital punishment has been implemented by the public, it seems only reasonable that they should be privy to the process. Justice Douglas proposed a return to public stoning--not a bad idea, but if executions are televised the entire nation would have an opportunity to sale its blood-lust...
Both in London and New York at the present times is an exciting new play. Tom Stoppard's The Real thing. The play casts a weary and jaundiced eye (much as John and Ru Selle would have done) at a world preoccupied with lust. materialism sensation, and self gratification Christopher Lasch in , The Cultone of Narcissism published in 1978, talks about the same theme...
...mention sexually audacious? by Chinese standards. Last year, according to Chinese press reports, 700 of the 800 pupils at a Shanghai high school enjoyed subscriptions to Story, a tabloid filled with teasing tales of lechery and lust. Feng Bing, 17, a typical teenage inmate in a Shanghai reform school, told a visitor that he was committed to the institute for watching foreign movies. Later, his principal disclosed that Feng was actually found guilty of seducing twelve-year-old girls. Even premarital and unorthodox sex have come out into the open. "Many of the abortions we perform are on unmarried girls...