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...association deplored what they called harassment by members of the Harvard community. One member called the removal of posters from approved bulletin boards a "flagrant abuse of civil freedom." He also cited the defacement of a "Gay Wednesday" sign on the Pusey Library fence with the words "Necrophiliac Thursday" and "Child Molester Friday...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: Association Declares Gay Day; Supporters Will Wear Jeans | 12/11/1974 | See Source »

...number of perversions available to writers is much more limited. Voyeurism makes for a good opener--usually a man spying on women at a swimming pool, private beach or health resort. "The Girl Killer" begins with a sexual sadist and necrophiliac watching women sunbathe on a tenement roof through the breast-shaped lens of binoculars...

Author: By James R. Beniger, | Title: Hetero, Homo, Sado and Pseudo: Skin Flicks Offer All Perversions | 2/29/1968 | See Source »

...genital organ of one victim, raping "four or five" others, robbing and attempting to rape even more. He had attacked lone women on New York streets, using a single-shot .22 rifle, a pistol, a steak knife, a hunting knife and a screwdriver. He was also a necrophiliac. Said a psychiatrist in court: "He told me he got no thrill with live women he raped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: A Savage Stalks at Midnight | 6/26/1964 | See Source »

...SINGULAR MAN, by J. P. Donleavy. The author again mines the stuff that dreams are made of: this one about the richest, handsomest, most irresistible American-who is, of course, also an accomplished necrophiliac with great taste in tombs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 27, 1963 | 12/27/1963 | See Source »

...After dithering a bit, he marries Sylvia, who is ten years his senior, rather than Janet, who is eight years his junior. Long practiced in the craft of writing family pageants. Author Spring keeps the subplots boiling, has a Victorian fondness for quaint characters with Dickensian names and habits: necrophiliac Mr. Tiddy, bluestocking Medea Hopkins, Brookes the perfect butler, Nurse Collum, who once saved her virginity by diving into the Isis at Oxford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction | 11/10/1961 | See Source »

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