Word: lusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SALKA VALKA - Halldor Laxness -Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Caustic realism and old-fashioned sentiment combined in a lengthy sociological history of corruption, lust and political conflict in an Icelandic fishing village. Author Laxness has a weakness for rhetoric, a hand skilled at character dissection...
...flop at the first signs of fire, try to scratch up a few handfuls of earth to hide behind, stare at each other to see who will have nerve enough to follow the commander forward, stumble to their feet, start to run and, the lust and excitement of combat suddenly on them, break into that wild monotone which, in civil life, is heard only in the frenzy of a prison riot...
...Vincent van Gogh, Novelist Irving Stone wrote Lust jor Life (1934). Of Paul Gauguin, Novelist Somerset Maugham wrote The Moon and Sixpence (1919), which by last week had sold over 84,000 copies in the U. S. alone...
...also retained in the picture for its universal appeal. There is an incredible technical skill in the way the tiny putty figures are handled. And the grotesque gesticulations and grimaces with which they express themselves, besides being an artistic triumph in caricature, are powerful agents in satirizing a capitalistic lust and craftiness...
...gives himself more latitude with Mrs. Alden, and with old Nathaniel Alden, Oliver's millionaire uncle. They could have stepped out of Sinclair Lewis in their smugness, their fear and hate of the world, their lust for propriety. Two of a kind, again, though utterly different from the former, are Mario van der Weyer and Jim Darnley, the skipper of Peter Alden's yacht. Frankly sensual both, romantic and intelligent, the line between them is one solely of birth and breeding...