Word: lusting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will take many years to make the present and future Germans overcome the brutalities of their Nazi philosophy, and it will require the assistance of all democratic peoples to help implant in the German people, in place of their present lust for power and power politics, the idea of right and the ideal of humanity...
...Even in propaganda plays we demand a certain amount of university, a level of meaning above that of action and character alone. University implies more than the minute, the particular a Nazi uniform on stage does not represent German imperialism. The broader abstractions of injustice, inhumanity, of greed and lust--these are the universal qualities of totalitarianism as Hitler practices it. None of these playwrights have been able to see beyond the Nazi uniform. They offer only a dramatic restatement of newspaper headline ideas on democracy, racial problems and totalitarianism...
Miss Welty has a clean, original prose style, which is clearly self-taught. In one page after another, she turns up sharp landscapes and atmospheres, details of costume, action and speech, with flashes of real brilliance. Her worst fault is her lust for melodrama, of the insidious sort which lies less in violence than in tricked atmosphere...
Before long Ellen was reduced to a soft, whining, pleading, quivering mass of lust and fear-fear of losing Ed. Naturally he tired of this and left her, with studied brutality. Ellen made frantic, shameless, almost somnambulistic efforts to get him back, finally saw no escape from her agony but the night-black waters of Lake Michigan...
...Little did he know or understand the intense love of their homes and country which fills the hearts of Soviet citizens. He was blinded by his own lust for power so that he could not recognize the gallant strength of the Red Army, Navy and Air Force...