Word: lusts
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...were ambiguous. Roosevelt could point to real gains in his first term: unemployment had been cut by 2 million since 1932, and the gross national product had increased by about 40%. Renominated by acclamation, he declared in a campaign speech that the "forces of selfishness and of lust for power" had met their match during his first term and would now meet "their master...
Strobe Talbott's essay on the failure of Communism [Jan. 4] is prizewinning material. He captured the contradictions, false assumptions and lust for power that underlie this vast totalitarian system. However, the essay failed to pay sufficient attention to one striking aspect of the dilemma presented by Soviet power: it is the support of the Western world that has made the U.S.S.R. so indomitable. With our shipments of food and technology we have not only sustained the sinking ship, we have armed it as well...
Lindberg's self-made men, boosters, gadgeteers, jacks of all trades and "shape shifters" share a love of the game that often exceeds their lust for profits. Even such desperate survivors as the King and the Duke in Huckleberry Finn threw themselves wholeheartedly into their roles. Their shenanigans tended to cloud the fact that Huck relished his own duplicities, and nearly everyone in the book was tricking someone else...
Stockman's reasons for allowing the interviews remain open to speculation. Like Nixon, he probably had a bit too much of the desire to be a hero, an ill-timed lust that undermined the situation in the end. Reagan's reasons for keeping Stockman on in face of the immense pressure to fire him are obvious. Getting rid of the number one man in the president's fight to revolutionize economic policy would be an admission that the remarks deserve credence, one that an administration that will soon have to defend its posture in Congress can ill afford to make...
...Plagued by anxiety, depression, vague discontents, a sense of inner emptiness, [they] seek neither individual self-aggrandizement nor spiritual transcendence, but peace of mind." The boomers have acquired pinstripes and purchased their entry into the American mainstream. But their search for laid-back pleasure does help define the present lust for fitness...