Word: lusts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DEAR JOHN. The subjects of this perceptive essay on sex in Sweden are a sailor and a girl who spend a weekend learning that there is more to their relationship than lust at first sight...
...here for potshots and heavy artillery in a marital Armageddon. His chief combatants are a pair of matched failures: George is an ineffectual, hagridden history professor; his wife Martha is the university president's daughter-a bitchy, aging man-eater with a father fixation and a casual lust for younger chaps. The entertainment takes shape very late one evening when a new young faculty couple stops by for a nightcap. "Give your coats and stuff to sourpuss," snarls Martha, and the foursome is off on an orgy of truth-and-consequences that lasts until dawn. They slosh down...
...Italy, he expressed his nobility in "the noble passion of lust." He also had an audience with Pope Clement XIII ("He looked jolly landlord and smiled") and charmed Lord Mountstuart, the 20-year-old son of Lord Bute, the favorite of King George HI. It was Boswell's big chance for a career at court, and he muffed it. He took Mountstuart to a whorehouse, brought him home severely plagued by Venus, was dismissed in disgrace from milord's retinue...
...Blood Lust. Above all, what could have driven a mother and young children to kill? Though Gertrude Baniszewski, a divorcee, pleaded insanity, three court-appointed psychiatrists pronounced her sane. One conceded that she possessed "a capacity for violent action," which may have been aroused by Sylvia's calling her daughter Stephanie, 15, a whore. As for the child sadists, it seemed that Mrs. Baniszewski's blood lust had infected them, and that Sylvia's passivity only whetted their murderous zeal...
DEAR JOHN. Love and lust subtly merge in this clever, Swedish-made valentine to a sailor (Jarl Kulle) and a girl (Christina Schollin) whose weekend passion turns out to be more than sin-deep...