Word: lusts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Religiosity aside, is it not possible that men who burn in their lust one toward another, working that which is unseemly as it were, might very well be only a nefarious experiment on Mother Nature's conglomerate known as the Human Race, and that we creatures really have very little to say about which side of the street we shall follow? Heaven knows, there's not a mother's son among us who woke up one sunshiny morning and suddenly decided, "This is my day for boys...
...central figure is 1st Lieut. Marius Catto. The 24-year-old lieutenant is an orphan who feels that the Union Army is his first real home, a bumbling but compassionate leader, an idealistic virgin consumed by lust. Catto manages to get himself shot in the shoulder by Martin mainly out of sheer carelessness. He feels no animosity toward the boy, and while recuperating from his wound, Catto fights the court-martial and the subsequent execution with an increasingly anguished awareness of the complexities of life. "What had been a duel, lost honorably and without resentment, became a charade, himself...
Though they vary in complexity, all her people face the uncompromising difficulties of love and its opposite-not hate, but apathy-a madding emptiness that invites lust and violence the way deadwood invites fire. Loretta Wendell is in some ways the most fortunate. As a 16-year-old Depression waif, she wakes to discover that her lover, sleeping beside her, has just been shot through the head. Within the hour, a neighborhood policeman, more interested in investigating Loretta than the murder, has her back in bed. Marrying him to rise in the world, she eventually finds her level...
...writing, characterization, drama, style and insight. Except, this season, for The Forsyte Saga, which begins a 26-week series this Sunday night on National Educational Television. For a turn-of-the-century English family, the Forsytes have everything: a generation gap (in fact, a three-generation gap), extramarital lust, intramarital lust, rape, divorce, birth, death, intrigue...
What Perrin's survey makes alarmingly evident is that bowdlerizing could become almost as unbridled a lust as lust itself. An expurgator may begin quietly enough by "lopping" or "cutting." He might omit, say, Sodom and Gomorrah from Old Testament stories. But before he is through, he is likely to end up as a compulsive cleaner-"the sort of man who is capable of bringing out an expurgated edition of Wordsworth," as a Victorian clergyman with a penchant for editing was once described...