Word: deviants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...From the viewpoint of hagiography, the martyr is the ultimate Christian hero, the most noble of saints. Sociology, with a cooler eye, sees him as something else: a special kind of social deviant. As Sociologist Robert K. Merton points out, the "historically significant nonconformist," his own definition of martyr, often risks his life for a variety of motives, some noble, some not. There are cases, he notes, in which martyrdom may be little else than "an expression of primary narcissism" or "a need for punishment." Like Camus's Rebel, or Peter Viereck's "unadjusted man," the martyr...
Depraved Man. Such measures were quite revolutionary compared with what preceded them, as David Rothman, an associate professor of history at Columbia University, documents in this tightly focused study of the treatment of "deviant" behavior in Jacksonian America. During the colonial and post-Revolutionary periods, older ideologies had prevailed. Then it was held that deviance was caused by the depraved nature of man, not society. God had so ordained, and John Calvin so maintained. Punishments did not so much fit the crime as the criminal. A man of property would usually be fined; a man without property was whipped. Since...
...arrives in the form of his English accountant, Harry Stein, a spiteful little sex deviant and sometime blackmailer who cannot forgive his clients the indulgence that is reflected in the expense accounts he sweats over. Jake accepts Harry's envy as a judgment. When his entanglement with Harry lands him in the dock at the Old Bailey-wrongly accused of bizarre sexual offenses against a German au pair girl-he acquiesces in society's right to demand an accounting from him. To him, the trial is the rack on which his way of life is stretched...
...York City is at the end of the land, and I like being near the ocean. At the edge. I have sympathy for the outlaw, the deviant. I am attracted by something extreme. I like to see real crazy people. That's why I live in New York. It is kind of a boil. You can really see the sickness there. As an artist, who must deal with these things, I am a little proud to have existed through all this. I'm a little bit crazy myself...
Grimspoon, co-chairman of the committee, said yesterday, "Marijuana is dangerous because it is a drug, but it is less dangerous than other commonly used drugs. The medical harm is not as great as the social harm that threatensyoung people with becoming deviant criminals...