Word: pederasts
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...fast-maturing poet. He stows away on a train to Paris. Drunk with wonder, he prowls this incandescent city, perches on curbstones to scribble his poems. He sleeps on pavements and swipes food from the markets. Caught and jailed, he is raped in his cell by a vagrant pederast. In shock and shame, Claude is brought home to his raging mother...
Neither, Nor? The inevitable blow-up came in 1914 when Gide published The Vatican Cellars, in which he made his homosexuality explicit for the first time. The book brought a wrathful letter from Claudel: "If you are not a pederast, why have you so strange a predilection for this sort of subject? And if you are one, cure yourself, you unhappy man, and do not make a show of these abominations...
When some 77 Germans were shot during Adolf Hitler's "blood purge," they at least were accused of plotting with that plug-ugly pederast Captain Ernst Roehm (TIME, July 9). Last week Josef Stalin resorted to more drastic Bolshevik Terror, terror in its purest form. Because a member of the Soviet Politbureau or Red Big Ten had been assassinated (TIME, Dec. 10), Soviet firing squads last week mowed down 66 Russians, one a woman, who were not accused of having anything to do with Assassin Leonid Nicolaev or his crime. According to dispatches passed by the Soviet censor, "they died...
...Pederast & Peer...