Word: lusting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heavenly Council of Love has met to assign him the feat of punishing mankind for its lust. God is too senile to start over, and the redemption of human soul is his only reason for existence, so fits of wrath like flood and fire are out this time. The devil ponders the problem and answers it with syphilis in the guise of an utterly naive and entrancing woman. The Virgin Mary is belatedly overcome with pity for humanity and ignores her promise to reward this hellish effort despite the demon's defence that his victims will still be capable...
Liberty or Lust...
...porno peddlers who profit from ignorance and lust [April 5]. Fie on the libertines who raise phony cries of censorship. And fie on the decent folk whose self-righteous apathy has permitted this appalling advanced case of acne to creep across the face of America...
...Nick (Richard Kelton) and Honey (Maureen Anderman), who join them for a savage 2 a.m.-to-5 a.m. session of show-and-tell are simply deployed by George and Martha as fodder for their internecine warfare. The words are tracer bullets and the drinks are hemlock, but the blood lust has an almost tonic ebullience...
...novel begins with Alan Casper's Harvard application essay, written from Flint, Michigan, in which he says he expects Harvard to be "the place to which Western culture leads us, men and women nourished by their civilization, sophisticated in life, experienced, witty and at home with their own lust." By the time Alan graduates, he seems to have made great personal strides toward that ideal, having compiled the best academic record at Harvard since 1937, learned 497 foreign languages, and found true and passionate love in the Widener D-level stacks, among other places. Thus equipped, he decides...