Word: lusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corruption of the oil cartel. The two most interesting figures, however, are the young students, Jallez and Jerphanion, the one attempting to recapture the purity of his love for Helene Sigeau, and the other just emerging from the crises of adolescence and still struggling in the tolls of youthful lust. Both of them are seeking, amid the disillusionment of the decade before the war, some rock on which to build their lives. There are countless other characters: a fake critic, a great poet, a great statesman, and the dog Macaire, an hour of whose life, set down in six pages...
Dominating all the other motifs, industry, politics, crime, letters, society, are the themes of pure love, which are orchestrated in the story of Jallez' struggles; and those of lust, culminating in the lyrical description of Jerphanion's tortured search for physical love in the streets of Paris, "kingdom of the carnal Eros." Romains is equally sympathetic and equally successful in his treatment of either phase...
...even Trainer Beatty knew what feline lust led Sammy to loose a great "AaaOOf," as he plunged down on Bessie's head. "Come out!" screamed his eight assistants to Beatty. He flicked a whip at the cageful of pedestaled lions & tigers, took the chance of turning his back on them, jumped into the fight. Bang! Bang! Crack! His blank gun, whip and chair were useless. Assistants trained a suffocating fire-hose stream on the fighters. Sammy had his great jaws deep in Bessie's throat. Trainer Beatty grabbed a piece of iron pipe, wrapped his fingers in Sammy...
...their congregations to find many of their most prominent parishioners absent. That same morning there was a dress rehearsal of Richard Strauss's Salome at the Metropolitan Opera House. To it had gone many a rich and respectable churchgoer to see how Olive Fremstad would exhibit her fanatical lust for the body of St. John the Baptist. The churchgoers were offended enough by the screaming dissonances and the way Fremstad brought the horrid head up to the footlights, caressed the matted black hair, kissed the cold lips. But no one was so outraged as Dr. William Stephen Rainsford when...
Lincoln Steffens, in an interview with the devil, performs an amusing tour de force by identifying satan with that above all things which Mr. Steffens hates--the instinct of conservatism, the blind lust to save things which we do not understand or evaluate. More pretentious, and less satisfying, is a homily on the institution of marriage by Andre Maurois. M. Maurois fights hard to preserve his urbanity, but through it all glitters that most distressing of phenomena, the putter-to-rights, who is just as alien an element in magazines as he is in the drama, where he contents himself...