Word: incestousness
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...father, a scientist who died at Auschwitz. He was denounced to the Nazis, Claudia believes, by her mother (Marie Bell), who has since remarried and gone mad. Claudia's brother, played with a nice sense of wasting vitality by Jean Sorel, is less interested in vengeance than in incest, about which he has written an autobiographical novel. Since the family closets are already bursting with scandalous secrets, Claudia begs him to destroy the book. The pair's unseemly sibling passion ultimately leads to disgrace, violence and suicide...
...bloodstained among latter-day criminal cases. Whichever way the murder trial goes, it is all mixed up with big money and wheeler-dealerism." Added the Houston Chronicle's man in Miami: "Woven through the fabric of the case are the threads of love, hate, greed, savage passion, intrigue, incest and perversion...
...with the photographer's cameras and cases," wrote the New York Daily News's Theo Wilson after a chat in Candy's apartment. "It is the end of the first week of Candy's trial and she has been hearing the words adultery, fornication and incest used openly in court nearly every day." What she might have been reading was just as bad. Wrote Jim Bishop: "Some claim to have seen photos of Candace embracing her Negro chauffeur . . . Other photos show the swinging grandma almost nude...
...family soon learned why. From relations in Greece, a letter arrived, telling how Vlachos had lured his daughter-in-law into a Salonika hotel room and raped her. In the poverty-stricken hill towns of Greece, where whole families are sometimes forced to sleep beneath the same blanket, incest and related affairs are not unknown, nor do these proud but ignorant people turn to the law to deal with such delicate matters...
...distinction between private and public morality is obscure and indefensible. Many U.S. jurists agree, among them New York State Supreme Court Justice Samuel Hofstadter, who believes that "discretion and privacy" cannot make the difference "between a wrongful and a lawful act"-as, for instance, in the case of incest. He supports a compassionate attitude but feels that "to legalize homosexual conduct is an injustice to society's future and an evasion of the problem...