Word: originalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...immediately examined by a doctor in attendance, who reports in turn to the bureau. This body of doctors (all Roman Catholic) meets almost every day at the height of the season, automatically rejects mental and nervous ailments and all cases of paralysis, unless definitely established as organic in origin. Fewer than ten of some 200 cases a year are considered worthy of further investigation...
Under "sexual deviation" the authors include hostile, destructive sexual behavior toward others (sadism) or accepted from others (masochism), of the same or opposite sex, and all socially unacceptable forms of overt behavior such as exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, transvestism, homosexuality and bestiality. To understand the origin of these disorders, the two psychiatrists say, "the physician must face a disquieting but demonstrable fact: examples of all degrees of parental seduction of the child occur more commonly than it is comfortable to contemplate . . . The seduction may be as subtle as a caress or as blatant as actual incest...
...Sannerz group (which by now included Swiss, Swedes and British, as well as Germans) found refuge on a farm in Wiltshire, England. World War II set most of them on the move again, when the community was boycotted because of its pacifist convictions and all those of German origin were threatened by internment. On a couple of months' notice, they set out for Paraguay-the only place they could find that put no conditions on their coming...
...raffish oddballs who people the Dennis-Erskine hotel are pretty special, and would have raised Krafft-Ebing's interest if not his eyebrows. There is T. J. Sturt III, a millionaire alcoholic who wears a pink girdle and phones random city fire departments to announce blazes of mysterious origin. There is seventyish L. Harvey Crull Jr., who puts under doors pamphlets announcing the Second Coming and chases upstairs maids into enclosed fire escapes. The hotel manager himself is a puffy homosexual who sleeps in "the very bed Madame Pompadour had once slept in. (Of course the mattress...
This is sometimes known as the Scopes Trial after the Dayton, Tennessee high school teacher who was prosecuted by the state for teaching Darwin's "Origin of the Species" instead of the traditional biblical belief in biology...