Word: krafft
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...themselves. The exhibit is sedately mounted in a series of small, serene galleries, with Marcel Duchamp's proto-pop Fresh Widow (a miniature French window with a head cold) respectfully enshrined in a Plexiglas case. Dali's minuscule (as small as 7 in. by 5½ in.) Krafft-Ebing fantasies glow like 15th century Van Eycks beneath Metropolitan Museum-style picture lamps...
...died of heart failure. In a somewhat facile analysis, the biographer suggests that Sacher-Masoch's depravity may have been caused by a dominant mother, a dominant nursemaid and a dominant aunt. This could explain why he was so upset when he heard that Dr. Krafft-Ebing had singled him out for inclusion in his Psychopathia Sexualis and coined the term masochism. After all, Masoch was his mother's family name, and he was concerned that her feelings would be hurt. He would have
...human beings down the ages have experienced sex, the question persists: What is it? The average man's or woman's answers are as uninformative as the paeans of poets, and not until a century ago did medical science tackle the question. Then even such pioneers as Krafft-Ebing, Freud and Kinsey relied on what their subjects told them - and gathered mostly emotion-laden impressions...
...Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, once the last word in unprintable scatology, can often be picked up in remainder bins for 25?. Miller has almost acquired a kind of dignity as the Grand Old Dirty Man of the trade, compared with some of the more current writers. Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis is out in two new editions, which for the first time render all those horrendous Latin passages in English-and, surrounded by the author's quaint 19th century moralizing, they seem tame alongside Candy or Norman Mailer's An American Dream...
...said to her eternal credit that Felicia Lamport was the first per son ever to worry about the poor fellow "who felt his old Krafft ebbing." She did this in a volume of light verse titled Scrap Irony that is the envy of some of the finest punsters in the language. In the current Harper's, Rhymester Lamport, 47, wife of a Harvard law professor, turns her pen to the sick state of the American stage. Excerpts from her Gallagher-and-Shean routine, titled Mr. Masoch and Count de Sade...