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...Haven, Conn.: "As I think back and look forward, I see how nothing is unambiguous; nothing is without risk. Salvation does not come through simplicities. The health of educational institutions rests on the need to be mindful of the crucial distinction between education and indoctrination. There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the Left and Right. They are not confined to a single part of society. They are the terrorists of the mind. (But) if freedom does not first reside in the mind, it cannot finally reside anywhere...
...1970s. Nor was the sexual revolution the answer. "Casual encounters and open sex left most Baby Boomers with a sense of emptiness, of personal isolation and loneliness," says University of Chicago Psychologist Froma Walsh. The spread of herpes and AIDS in the mid-'80s further diminished wandering lust...
...double irony is that because their relationship is based on original deception, their extramarital affair, it has no chance of working. Annie and Henry cling blindly to the marriage anyway, thinking that they've found the real thing. Soon love degenerates to lust, commitment becomes a bargain, and everything is a big disappointment...
What happens when I objectify a women? I look at her, as Jimmy Carter once said, "with lust in my heart." But what is wrong with lust?, I wonder. It is a feeling as legitimate as any other, yet I am expected to downgrade and repress it, to deny that I can desire a woman just for her looks...
...streets with the poor, a whole country up in flowers. In a short string of remarkable days a crooked election was held and exposed; a dignified woman established her stature and leadership; a despot ranted, sweated, fled; a palace changed guard--all with a minimum of blood lust and an abundance of determination and common national will. Not since 18th century France have Americans approved so heartily of a rebellion...