Word: lusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lust for Life succeeds both as a presentation of Vincent Van Gogh's life and of his paintings. Successful portrayal of any great artist merits respect, but perhaps even additional praise is due that of Van Gogh, a man of unusual interest and complexity...
...poetry of Robinson Jeffers and Edith Sitwell represents the heresy that Christianity's power has been gained by an appeal through the Crucifixion to "man's hidden lust for blood," the Reverend Amos N. Wilder, Hollis Professor of Divinity, said at his fourth William Belden Noble ecture ast night...
Jeffers, "a twentieth century Cassandra," felt that Christ had "shamed an age," and that His crucifixion had given Western people a "lust for blood," the speaker asserted. Wilder cited Jeffers' work, "Dear Judas," in which the poet asserts that Christ realizes that His power over man is achieved through suffering...
...Lust for Trouble. When Roy joined Paris-Match in 1949, his nose for news was indistinguishable from his lust for danger. As a World War II soldier, he parachuted into occupied France, landed in the Normandy invasion, was badly wounded at Bastogne (for which he won the Silver Star). As a civilian, he kept going to war. In Guatemala during the anti-Communist revolution, he climbed over street barricades carrying not only a camera but a .45 Colt. During Tunisian riots, he calmly snapped pictures in the middle of a pillaging mob looking for Frenchmen to kill. In Indo-China...
...Lust for Beauty. In its heyday, Venice pioneered the income tax, statistical science, the floating of government stock, state censorship of books, the gambling casino, and the ghetto (though no Renaissance power was less overtly anti-Semitic). Many of these reflect what Author McCarthy regards as the persistent Venetian style and temperament-dry, succinct, tough-minded. In the 18th century, the last of the doges, handing the ducal cap to an attendant, remarked matter-of-factly, "I won't be needing this any more." Venice can boast no profound thinkers, no religious martyrs, no native-born legendary lovers...