Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jean-Paul Sartre, playwright, novelist and grand high cockalorum of existentialism, spoke up for the disenchanted. Sartre, who once wrote one of the theater's most effective anti-Communist plays. Red Gloves, and then wished he had not, defected once again. ''Intervention [in Hungary] was a crime," he cried in a four-page protest in the anti-Communist L'Express. "The Red Army fired on an entire people. And the crime for me is not only the tank attack on Budapest. It is also that it was rendered possible by twelve-years of terror and stupidity...
...Three Italians were tried for murder but released by Italian courts; two U.S. Armymen, Aldo Icardi and Carl LoDolce, were convicted by Italy in absentia but cannot be extradited for punishment, nor can they be tried for the crime...
There was no excuse for the crime. Leopold and Loeb were the sons of millionaires. They lacked nothing. They were brilliant students in law, science and languages; Leopold had a rating as "genius" in intelligence tests. Life offered them everything-and what it gave them was a 99-year-plus-life sentence in Illinois prisons. Loeb died in prison, the victim of a fellow convict's straight razor in a shower-bath row framed in homosexualism. Leopold lives on, a sad, heavy-set man of 51, deeply read in many languages, and fascinated by medical research which he works...
Pointless Crime. Leopold and Loeb had a homosexual tie, and 30 years ago the words "sex" or "perversion" or "degenerate" would have seemed adequate to explain why two rich, intellectual boys should make a game of murder. Levin is not content with this explanation. He points out that Friedrich Nietzsche had introduced them to the idea of the superman, "beyond good and evil." A really superior man, they reasoned-in one of those gloomy blunders which snarl up the scribbled notebook of adolescence-could put himself above and beyond society by the successful commission of a pointless crime. They burned...
Thus, in his 495 documented pages, Levin attempts to relate the criminal folly of Leopold-Loeb to the greatest "crime of our century"-fascism and all the ideologies by which man justifies his crimes. Levin's sermon: if it is true that men are all parts of one another, then some part of every man is pretty terrible...