Word: lustfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evolutionary history of Homo sapiens, general patterns of human behavior, the biological basis of gender differences (a delicate subject), and the evolutionary role of language Konner then looks at the implications of behavioral biology's latest contribution to the understanding of seven human emotions rage, fear, joy, lust, love, grief, and gluttony...
...Pentagon. Scheer, who works for the Los Angeles Times, is one of those reporters who can get even the most experienced and cautious public officials to make the most unguarded and self-damaging disclosures, particularly when they are running for President. He got Jimmy Carter to confess lust in his heart in 1976, in Playboy, no less. Scheer induced Reagan, whom he interviewed in 1980, and others now in the Administration to talk with a degree of candor matched only by their imprudence and, sometimes, ignorance...
...each case. Updike's versatility has been achieved at some cost. The rules governing his work have remained consistent and deliberately circumscribed. Wit dominates passion; irony mocks the possibility of tragic grandeur. The feelings most likely to seize Updike's comfortably situated people are nostalgia and lust...
Chasing the ineffable can make gymnastic philosophy and entertaining drama, but Hildesheimer's pursuit is a didactic lust for lifelessness. Having cleansed Mozart of the cliches of romanticism and Victorian propriety, he spills the cliches of existentialism and psychoanalysis. There are speculations on the speculative and a dozen ways to say perhaps. In one breath the man and his art are separated; in another, "we always experience Mozart's music ... as the catharsis resulting from one man's sublimation of his personal crisis." Mozart is certainly elusive, as Hildesheimer claims, but here he is hidden twice: once...
...herb. She is disgusted and lonely. She spits on the nearest insensate pate and sets off into the cool, hopeful night. She will search for a man who might love her, for a man with the dirt of experience beneath his fingernails, for a man who might rekindle her lust for life--for a man who wears Hanes underwear...