Word: lusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story hinges upon war regarded as an agapemone, a lust fest. To focus this notion there is Sylvia Tietjens. To contrast war with quiescent civilization there is Christopher Tietjens of Groby, her husband. Both are extreme types, impossible in life unless recent English divorce cases were toned down in the newspapers...
Peter is growing old. His lust for knowledge, conquest, women, has waned. He catches disease. Torches burn in his belly. He sends for his enemy, the monk Golivin. He puts on the monk's cassock to be carried to the tomb. He starts to dictate his will and dies. Katharina crowns herself. She likes Golivin's brown back, and makes him Patriarch. He says the death mass for the Tsar. After a night with Katharina, Golivin goes back to the Cathedral, throws himself in remorse upon the Tsar's sarcophagus: "Arise! anointed one! Come back...
...NAKED MAN ? Vere Hutchinson?Century ($2). A man's dream of one woman, his lust for another, need of a third?these are his nakedness. A son,' conceived in drunkenness and evil, had stagnated in the murk of a coal mine for 13 years with but two gleams of light?the dream of a girl he had loved in boyhood, and the memory of a year spent convalescing from illness on an uncle's farm. Unexpectedly the farm was bequeathed to him. With his dull wife and the bitter memory of a stillborn son, he went to the land...
...Just before sending them on the field, the coach should inflame every players anger blood-lust by hurling at him some choice bit of propaganda on the crimes and atrocities against society committed by individual members of the opposing team...
Once again, then, hope flickers before the tired eyes of the nations. Yet there have been other promises in other treaties, and men in the fury of their vengeance or their lust have forgotten the promises and destroyed the treaties. Now a new document lies on the table of the conference at Locarno. Dare one hope that this may serve as the safeguard of a lasting peace...