Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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that they beat to death a pretty teen age girl while trying to exorcise the devil from her body...
...would like to have a friend of my age," 17-year-old Bernadette Hasler wrote shortly before she died, "and if I cannot have a friend, I would like at least to have a cat or a parakeet to whom I could talk." At the time, not even her family would talk to her any more because they believed her guilty of "Teufelsbuhlschaft," or coupling-with-the-devil. Her tormentors considered this an act so evil that excorcism by prayer was useless. The devil had to be flailed...
Gathering 41 far from athletic oldsters ranging in age from 50 to 87, deVries gave them complete physical examinations, tested reactions, then put them through hour-long workouts three times a week. Puffing at first, the late-blooming physical culturists engaged in calisthenics, jogging, stretching and water exercises. Within six weeks the difference between the exercisers and a nonexercising group of 26 men in the same age range was profound...
Deprivation dwarfs often show the symptoms of their syndrome by the age of two. Extremely shy, unable to control their tempers, insatiably hungry and thirsty (drinking water out of toilet bowls is one sign), they crave bizarre food substitutes for the love they miss. Indeed, when doctors can find no organic cause for a stunted child, they look for strange behavior as the key to diagnosis. Although few parents are candid about an unhappy home, researchers have compiled a list of typical situations, including alcoholism, sexual incompatibility, illness, beatings, unemployment and unwanted pregnancies...
...other ways, out of it. The era is supposed to belong to the politically active and the sexually liberated young; how could anyone hope to succeed with a picture about a male-virgin college graduate whose only politic problem was turning off Mrs. Robinson? This is an age dominated by science, which prides itself on being free of superstition; who would have thought that a story that takes the devil seriously could become a smash? Yet Rosemary's Baby was not only a bestseller as a book, but already ranks among the top 50 alltime movie hits. The Graduate...