Word: deviants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...easy acceptance, by the community, of widely differing styles has served to enhance all of them; people may be and do, as well as think, very different things and still be valued in this world. In too many institutions deviations from a common mode appear (even to the deviant) as failures to adapt...
...have by now lost all patience for your Communist propaganda, though we are alike in our strategic conceptualizations....I got into Harvard Early Action....new methods...fight for unity and strength through the quelling of dissent and deviant thought such as yours...
Shainess, a psychiatrist, is engaged in redefining masochism. It is not the usual deviant behavior that guys joke about in the locker room. Instead, it is at daily component in most women's lives. According to Shiness, masochism begins within the family when parents, perpetuating a pattern they learned in their first homes, begin to damage their child's fragile...
Chief among the book's failings is the author's inability to rise above the sordid details of his characters' lives and provide the reader with at least a glimpse of the motives behind the deviant behavior. Those interested in a fictional handling of this cultural schizophrenia would do better to turn back to an earlier work, Judith Rossner's sensitive, albeit sensational, Looking for Mr. Goodbar--or else wait for a treatment more skilled than Theroux...
...senior in high school and you're a girl, College Week--an annual pilgrimage of sun-starved New England undergraduates to a Mecca for Anglophilic vacationers--presents unprecedented opportunities for deviant behavior, including the ever-popular boozin,' cruisin,' and woosin.' So it's not all that surprising that placing 10 less-than-mild-mannered 17 year-old girls in this resort haven with minimal supervision during Spring recess would satisfy an Irwin Allen formula for disaster...