Word: dens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...West," according to Mexican Poet-Diplomat Octavio Paz. In Western pornography, "death spurs pleasures and rules over life. From Sade to the Story of O, eroticism is a funeral chant or a sinister pantomime." Reading about sadism can have a cumulative effect, according to Psychoanalyst Ernest van den Haag. Der Stunner, a Hitlerite journal that mixed anti-Semitism and sex, contributed to the general atmosphere that made it possible to slaughter Jews, Van den Haag believes. Similarly, he says, today's sadistic pornography contributes to a general atmosphere in which sadism becomes generally permissible...
December 1970: The Saigon news paper Trang Den says Martine and her mother are impostors, and the real Martine is found hauling 110-lb. cement bags in a Saigon factory. A Paris paper quotes Tran Van Lam, Saigon's Minister of Foreign Affairs, as saying: "We haven't dared tell him yet, but there are at least 17 other candidates for the role of Martine Bokassa...
...success would have been as unthinkable during the rages and outrages of 1969 as it seems inevitable in 1971. "The mood today," says Dr. Ernest Van Den Haag, a New York University social philosopher, "particularly on campus, is toward personal relationships rather than politics, love rather than sex, feeling rather than action. Not by accident does this mood coincide with the Nixon era. We've had two Presidents with activist images; they didn't solve our problems. Now the era of causes is practically over. Two years ago, we had a great number of mass actions: peace marches, college demonstrations...
...pleasure or disgust. The players, of course, with their physical and financial survival in continual jeopardy, are no more likely to philosophize during the game than gladiators in the arena-But for the viewers, especially for the viewers watching for free in the eremitical peace of living room or den, protected from the elements, aided and enlightened by instant replay and running commentary, a well played game has all the ingredients of a genuine philosophical experience. Whether or not the fan realizes this is another question, but he can only blame him self, if he leaves the game no wiser...
...minutely detailed copy of a Special Forces uniform. A sweating man in tuxedo lined the three up in front of a battery of Chamber of Commerce and news photographers, whereupon the contestants blinked mutely like pole-axed calves as the flashbulbs burst and the shutters began snapping like a den of rattlers...