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Word: forceless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forceless father, a smothering mother, an adolescence strangled with apron strings. Fears of women, fumbles at sex. A slow, sick drift of disappointed desire that bears him insidiously back to the dear, safe days when he was a pretty little boy among pretty little girls who adored him and made no demands. But now he is no longer a little boy, and when he tries to behave like one, the games get stranger and stranger, till one day he finds himself alone in the woods with a ten-year-old girl, breathing hard and gliding close to the terrified child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Compulsion & Salvation | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

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