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It is sex that obsesses them, sex that is at the basis of their aesthetic creed.
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Though sex in some form or other enters into all human activity and it was a good thing that Freud emphasized this aspect of human nature, it is fantastic to explain everything in terms of sex.
`` All is not sex '', declared Lawrence.
But for the beat generation all is sex.
Nothing is more revealing of the way of life and literary aspirations of this group than their attitude toward sex.
For the beatnik, like the hipster, is in opposition to a society that is based on the repression of the sex instinct.
Jazz is sex, marijuana is a stimulus to sex, the beat tempo is adjusted to the orgiastic release of the sexual impulse.
Lawrence Lipton, in The Holy Barbarians, stresses that for the beat generation sex is more than a source of pleasure ; ;
If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.
Jazz is the musical language of sex, the vocabulary of the orgasm ; ;
Jazz, like sex, is a mystique.
It is not a substitute for sex but a dynamic expression of the creative impulse in unfettered man.
The mystique of sex, combined with marijuana and jazz, is intended to provide a design for living.
What they discuss with dialectical seriousness is the degree to which sex can inspire the Muse.
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James's most famous novella is The Turn of the Screw, a ghost story in which the question of childhood corruption obsesses a governess.
She is 35, married to Keith ( previously married and somewhat older at 58 ; she virtually worships him ) and mother to baby Dane ( about whom she obsesses ).
* Tocelyn " Tossie " Mering, a beautiful and intelligent " rose of England " who, through the influence of her parents, is flighty and obsesses with trivialities.
Arne ( Lennart Jähkel ), is so ambitious for the choir's success that he obsesses over tiny mistakes but fails to see that he is making bigger mistakes himself.
She is often delusional and obsesses over certain celebrities, in particular former talk show host Star Jones ( who she views as her stalker and her " only competition "), her " lesbian lover " Oprah Winfrey and her " close friends " Michael Jackson and Elizabeth Taylor.
At first, Jacey cannot wait to escape the suffocating life in Haley ; later in the film, however, he is pulled back as he idolizes the Abbott family, and obsesses about the oldest daughter, Alice ( Joanna Going ), thus seeking to jockey his way into the Abbott family.
* In the second season of Suits, character Louis Litt obsesses over the wall colour of Daniel Hardman's office, claiming that it is tan when it is supposed to be taupe.
is and them
There is much truth in both these charges, and not many Bourbons deny them.
Most of them sincerely believe that the Anglo-Saxon is the best race in the world and that it should remain pure.
They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.
Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.
Here in these little rooms -- or stages arched open to the sky and river -- they choose a few lines out of the hundreds they may know and sing them according to one of the modes into which Persian music is divided.
Before merging them into a common profile it is well to remember that their separate careers were extraordinary.
If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.
And it is certainly no slight to either of them to compare both their achievements and their impact.
The consciousness it mirrors may have come earlier to Europe than to America, but it is the consciousness that most `` mature '' societies arrive at when their successes in technological and economic systematization propel them into a time of examining the not-strictly-practical ends of culture.
And Zen Buddhism, though it is extremely difficult to understand how these internal contradictions are reconciled, helps them in their struggle to achieve personal salvation through sexual release.
The mind has betrayed them, reason is the foe of life ; ;
It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann's work.
As in experience one is seized by given entities and their interrelations and is forced to respond in value feelings to them, so one is similarly seized in the mimetic presentation of images.
For the occasion on which everyone already knows everyone else and the host wishes them to meet one or a few honored newcomers, then the `` open house '' system is advantageous because the honored guests are fixed connective points and the drifting guests make and break connections at the door.
What I want to point out here is that all of them are ex-liberals, or modified liberals, with perhaps one exception.
As to benefits to employees, it is notorious for its callous disregard except where it depends on them for services.
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It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.
Actually, only two men know what the formula is, Blake and '' -- He stopped and looked at Thor's body.
The artist looks at an ankle, a calf, a bosom and, in his mind's eye, the clothes drop away and he sees her as she really is.
Meredith was irritated when the Grafin knocked at his door and told him, `` She is a great beauty!!
`` That tub is going to explode all at once ''.
But there is no use causing him to worry at this time ''.
since Bourbon whiskey, though of Kentucky origin, is at least as much favored by liberals in the North as by conservatives in the South.
This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.
A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.
It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).
Already accidental war is a silent guest at the discussions within the Kennedy Administration about the urgency of disarmament and nearly all other questions of national security.
They include the Navy's Atlantic Command at Norfolk, Virginia, which is in contact with the Polaris subs ; ;
Idje, here '', and he nodded at the man, `` is said to have great odor.
Nowhere in Isfahan is this rich aesthetic life of the Persians shown so well as during the promenade at the Khaju bridge.
Here, on the hottest day, it is cool beneath the stone and fresh from the water flowing in the sluices at the bottom of the vaults.
And it is expressed, at least to their taste, in a perfect form.
That, at any rate, is what happens at the Khaju bridge.
It is said that, even at the present stage of Southern urbanization, such a city as Atlanta is not distinctly unlike Columbus or Trenton.
We are desperately in the need of such invention, for man is still very much at the mercy of man.
That, I thought, is at least one thing I can find out when we meet.
But it is different at Chartres.
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