Word: deviant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Last week an unofficial, privately financed 52-man committee chosen and headed by Longford, completed 16 months of investigation by publishing a 520-page report on pornography. Unlike the President's commission in the U.S., Lord Longford's study found that pornography creates an addiction "leading to deviant obsessions and actions." He also recommended that Britain's anti-obscenity laws be strengthened and extended...
...Stalin era. There is an echo of Stalinism in the prevalence of the cult of Mao, which overwhelms the visitor. The country seems slightly dazed, as if only recently emerged from shock therapy. There is a visible effort to blend in, not to be singled out because of deviant actions or opinions...
SUSAN BROWNMILLER: "We are convinced that rape is a political crime and can be eradicated like lynching. We have the power to eradicate it, but that won't be done until it is understood not as deviant behavior but as the logical result of sexism. The left can't get over its old view of rape as a hysterical white woman accusing a black man. The left says that all prisoners are political prisoners who are there because they want a piece of society; what they think is their piece of society is a part of our bodies...
...only person who has ever been asked to leave a Woolworth store because my autistic son started howling with fear when someone's dog came up to sniff him over. The dog was tolerated, but society is unable to accommodate this kind of misbehavior in public from a deviant human...
...styles of dealing with them--are at least as varied as the individuals who wrote them. The cases printed were chosen as a representative sampling of those submitted in the two courses--meaning, among other things, that descriptions of behavior that many people would consider pathological or, deviant are included along with the majority of description that most would consider "normal." Under "Autonomy" is a case written by a woman who, as a result of the death of both her parents while she and her sister were young, develops an extraordinarily close relationship with that sister. Even after both...