Word: perverters
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...behavior is characterized by frankness and energy. He is shrewd but not furtive. He is persistent rather than intense. He is not inclined to be sentimental; he avoids affectation. His nature seldom goes to extremes; that is, it seldom degenerates into the pervert, seldom rises above average to the genius. Interests that have attracted him with exceptional force, interests to which he has given himself most unreservedly, are only two: finance and religion. He is not notable as farmer, politician, soldier, artist or scientist...
...kinds: curious adolescents, repressed adults. To the former, they supply a vicious stimulation of impulses normally dormant, a concrete embodiment of restless speculations and images, and an incentive for unhealthy physiological experimentation. In the latter, they nurse that weakness for vicarious sensuality which is an invariable characteristic of the pervert and the frustrate. Sane people, recognizing the menace of this pestilence of pornography, register, here and there, a recognizable protest, of. which the most effective so far have been those in Washington, Omaha, Chicago...
...misstating the facts of the history of the Party and giving an untrue version of events ... to pervert Bolshevist ideals, deluding the Party, the Communist Internationale and the whole country regarding the real relations of Lenin to the Party during the period of the Revolution...
...Having perused well the chronicle of the week," and having fortified himself with a dose from Webster, the Instructor in Journalism "views with alarm" the accession of his favorite weekly to the conspiracy to pervert the small adjective "due" to the rank of a conjunction (TIME, p. 10, col. 3, Nov. 24, 1924). How can he keep his students from this barbarous usage when his best ally deserts...
...tragic phenomenon in this vale of tears than the deliberate perversion of an idea or a philosophy out of its original meaning in order to serve the base purposes of its enemies. Does a Christ preach a creed of peace on earth, good will to men, some Kaiser will pervert his words into " Gott mit Uns." Does a Nietzsche drive himself into madness transvaluing all the moral values, some nimbled-witted George Creel will reduce his works to a cheap credo for footpads. Does a serious-minded Bernard Shaw spend fifty years writing serious plays for the cultured leisure classes...