Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enormity of the crime committed against the U.S. and against U.S. labor by racketeering labor bosses has only begun to sink home, despite the procession of headlines from the Senate committee on labor racketeering. Among the first to grasp the full meaning of it all-and the meaning of the anti-labor kickback that is bound to come-is the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s blunt President George Meany. Last week Meany told a union convention in Washington just how shocked he was at what he found out over the last two years...
...Criminology," Dr. William McCord tells the one hundred and fifty students at the beginning of the course more commonly called "Cops and Robbers." When asked what is responsible for his own interest in the criminal mind, he replies with refreshingly characteristic frankness: "I suppose my primary interest in crime is the sublimation of aggression; to vicariously participate in violence without feeling guilt. Also, of course, the outlaw has as much attractiveness to me as to the rest of American culture." He adds with his engaging smile, "I liked aggressive sports when I was at Stanford: I played soccer, football...
...Lemmon twists could not make palatable a character who genially blackmailed his loving mother while planning the death of his brother for the insurance. Lacking either the spoofing playfulness of Kind Hearts and Coronets or the intrigue of the Borgia capers, the play amounted to a catalogue of crime with little more dramatic point or development than the police blotter...
Friedrich Hebbel, 19th century German dramatist, perhaps put his finger on why Compulsion fails to be large and liberating drama when he said that in a good play everyone must seem in the right. For the two killers this is impossible, less because of how hideous their crime is than how gratuitous: it lacks an understandably human motive. Clinically, the crime can be explained: given a lawless Jazz Age, two badly spoiled, rich men's sons, a homosexual neurosis and a Nietzschean intellectual arrogance, and such a chemical mixture may explode into murder-for-a-thrill. But the case...
...Loeb-Leopold murder case. Told in 20 scenes and lasting some three and a half hours, Compulsion begins just after two young homosexuals have, with long-calculated wantonness, killed a 14-year-old boy. There follow revelations of self-styled supermen who had dreamed of committing a perfect crime; of gay, violent, vicious Artie Straus (Richard Loeb) and his "superior slave," Judd Steiner (Nathan Leopold); of how imperfect a crime the two had actually committed; of their dissension as danger looms, their behavior as detection narrows; of the fantasy worlds in which both had lived. There is finally the trial...