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...psychological tests revealed a person with a "childlike level of functioning," one with a "lack of self-esteem and shattered pride." The stories she made up were "sad, hopeless, with nostalgia about the past." Describing human characters in one test, she tended to use such words as "dutiful and compliant"-a common response, West told the jurors, among former prisoners of war. (One sharp judgment made by Patty: asked to finish a sentence that began "Most men," she added, "are assholes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Battle over Patty's Mind | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

...embryonic Adolfs are brought to term in the wombs of compliant Indian women, then sent to Rio and put on the world adoption market. Mengele schemes to place them with families in Europe and North America that most closely resemble the parental environment of the original Hitler. The principal qualification: mothers have to be much younger than the fathers-retired civil servants who must die when the ditto Hitlers are about 14 years old. If nature does not take its course, killers are sent to eliminate the old men. Having manipulated both nature and nurture, Mengele hopes that at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rosemary's F | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

...assassination of John F. Kennedy is more of a mystery today than it appeared to be almost twelve years ago, due primarily to an intransigent Warren Commission, obfuscating police agencies and a too compliant press. Your article is an important and honorable exception. Several steps ahead of the FBI oversight committee of the House of Representatives, you provide proof that the FBI decided to deceive the Warren Commission and easily accomplished that objective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum: The Once and Future Spain | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

...decision. I fitted the pieces together, and they fitted excellently ... These are my guys." Despite the Mr. Touchdown talk, the explanation did not score: the men who were benched had all served Ford ably. If his shuffling had been done only to put in more congenial and compliant subordinates, then it was even more unattractive and potentially dangerous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: FORD'S COSTLY PURGE | 11/17/1975 | See Source »

...manners, crass landscape!" she wrote after spending a night at a Massachusetts hotel. "What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast." More and more time was spent in Europe, and finally Edith and the ever compliant Teddy took an apartment in Paris, returning to America for shorter and shorter visits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Popping the Stays | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

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