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...West has recognized martial music by its 4/4 march time--the same rhythm that, one way or another, propels the traditional rock song. Martial music is supposed to excite sentimental feelings of patriotism and community, then harness them to aggressive instincts; rock songs stir up adolescent anger and lust, and--depending on which side of 1970 you grew up on--either ignite or dissipate them. During the heyday of today's rock idiom, in the mid-'60s, the goals of the two types of music were identical: if you listened to the Jefferson Airplane's "Volunteers," you were supposed...
...camera muscles into the action, peering from above, from below, from the combatant's point of view, panning 360° as a doomed fighter spins toward the canvas. Smoke, sweat, flesh and blood become Jackson Pollock abstractions as they pound home the essential blood lust of those sweet sciences, prizefighting and moviemaking...
...Yale fans shouldn't worry too much if Jack Kelley forgot to wear his sandals to breakfast this morning. As the Elis roll into Cambridge for their 97th meeting with the Crimson, they're bringing with them more than lucky charms and the lust for revenge...
Pope John Paul's statement that lust for one's wife could be adultery in one's heart [Oct. 27] aroused hostility and opposition because it pricked the consciences of those who view sex not as a sacred union, but rather as mutual masturbation and a means to voyeuristic gratification...
...ethnographic jigsaw that is Southeast Asia. On the plains, the Buddha's concepts of the "flood" (travail in the material world) and "further shore" (the search for nirvana) are apt metaphors for peasant lives constantly subjected to natural disasters. In mountain societies, which are often driven by a lust for Lebensraum, Buddhism's "middle way" tempers excesses...