Word: lusts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lust appeal is a winsome smoothy, handicapped by her big feet and her loud, monotonic voice. Two male characters, one of whom is an amazing personification of a Jordan Marsh clothing dummy with a Picadilly accent, are uninspiring. The remainder of the cast consists of two maids, one black and one white, who will be wasting their talents for serving tea and answering doorbells if "Old Acquaintance" actually lasts on Broadway...
Sour-faced Premier General Ion ('"Red Dog") Antonescu and Vice Premier and Iron Guard Leader Horia Sima spoke of "severe measures" to punish the extremist Green Shirts, but their words were scarcely in print when blood lust rushed through the whole disaster-sickened country. Onetime Premier Professor Nicolas lorga, tutor of King Carol and eminent historian, "the teacher of the nation," was found dead on the outskirts of the oil fields near his country home at Valeni-de-Munte. George Bratianu, scion of the dynasty which secured Rumania its independence, kept it going through World War I, was reported...
Olson brings out the design and freshens up the colors of this faded legend by putting it under the spotlight of today; turns it into a surrealistic cyclorama of human fate. In the foreground the seven deadly sins of Sloth, Gluttony, Envy, Lust, Avarice, Pride, Anger move like insatiable' ghouls through the golden haze of eternity. The background is left for the individual cyclorama-goer to fill...
Tuberculous Voltaire lived wizened and fire-eyed for 84 years. "In individuals in whom the tubercle bacillus grows meagerly . . ." observed Dr. Lawrence F. Flick, "[it] may make life more pleasant and make the individual more profitable to society than he otherwise would be." The passionate life-lust of John Keats's odes and sonnets is ironically accounted for in his autopsy: "The lungs were entirely gone; the doctors could not understand how he had lived the last two months." Professors often shake sad heads over their belief that had Keats (who died at 25) lived an average lifetime...
...that they are bricks, girders, and tie bars. I have not objected to the use of theories but only to their use in ways that produce what are called higher truths. I have not objected to simplifications but only to the use of simplifications in order to satisfy the lust for oneness by denying facts, experience and common sense. My objections rest on the observation that such ways of thinking produce confusion wherever they are applied and on the be lief that criticism has no privilege of confusing us." DeVoto was even more credible when he added: "Human patience...