Word: partook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though he loved the masses, Eastman did not neglect individuals. "To me lust is sacred." he writes, "sexual embraces nearer to a Holy Communion than a profane indulgence-a partaking, so to speak, of the blood and body of Nature." He partook generously. Leaving his wife and child, he moved in with a comely actress, Florence Deshon, whose temperament was much like his: she had once caused a near-riot in a theater by refusing to rise for the Star Spangled Banner. The affair was a stormy one; as Eastman torridly tells it, heaven-shattering passion alternated with earth-shaking...
...they did so again last week. Said an official Soviet Government and Communist Party announcement: "We regard these victories in the conquest of outer space not only as the achievement of our people but as an achievement of all mankind." However chagrined U.S. scientists felt last week, they also partook of the Russian triumph...