Word: lusts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Americanism is more British than American-more British, even, than average-British. This seven-month child of a British peer and an American heiress went back to Elizabethan times to find his spiritual forebears; he grew to maturity with a stomach for strong food and drink, with a lust for adventure, with a tongue and pen that shaped the English language into the virile patterns of a Donne, a Marlowe or a Shakespeare. His father he worshiped, but never got close to; his mother he respectfully admired...
Piscator feels that Lear's picture of the ravages wrought by the power lust is especially relevant nowadays. It is. Whether or not Piscator's or others' stage inventions can add to Lear's bitter power, Piscator's Lear is a stimulating...
...They Knew What They Wanted" is one of the most gripping films Hollywood has made recently. It handles old themes--love, jealousy, lust--in a straightforward, unaffected fashion that carries great conviction. Charles Laughton, as an Italian fruit-grower, and Carole Lombard, as a hash-house waitress, squeeze every bit of pathos and humor from their roles. William Gargan is a truly tragic figure as the villain of the piece, who ruins his own chances for happiness at the same time that he comes near to destroying the lives of those he loves most. Unlike the average Hollywood product, this...
...think, gentlemen, this is one of the most important points I have-conscription takes boys shortly out of high school, boys who all their lives have been taught to respect women . . . and places them in situations where the absence of normal contact with girls induces a mass lust which has always characterized Army units...
...Swomley: "Mass lust. I will clarify that...