Word: perverting
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...such a chap invariably does show up. He is the evil witch, but a little makeup and a few courses at the 2-by-4 Acting Academy have converted him into an acceptably wooden snot of a boy (Michael York). He announces that he is a murderer and a pervert, thus letting the other characters know that they are under almost as deep a curse as the audience. He casts some pretty savage spells. Rubbing out two of the countess's loyal stalwarts, he becomes her majordomo. He entices the daughter of a pair of rich social climbers into...
...medical background and training, answers none of the questions that the young captain began raising as soon as he was assigned to psychiatric duty at Fort Knox. Because the Army sets the welfare of the unit above that of the individual, Switkes argued, the psychiatrist is forced to pervert his true role as a therapist. In military service, he says, "the well-adjusted personality becomes the one which can function within the unit, not the one at peace with itself...
...cities have harassed our meeting places: bars and baths and parks. They set up entrapment squads. A Berkeley brother was slain by a cop in April when he tried to split after finding out that the trick who was making advances to him was a cop. Cities set up "pervert" registration. which if nothing else scares our brothers into the closet deeper...
...will not serve the interests of Israeli self-determination nor the interests of peace to railroad American Jewish radicals into carte blanche acceptance of all acts of the Israeli government. It would be tragic to remember only (and thus pervert) Rabbi Hillel's injunction, "If we are not for ourselves, who will be for us?" and to forget that he added. "But if we are for ourselves only, what are we? If not now, when...
...Solzhenitsyn, who insisted that he had forbidden the appearance of his works in the West. He added that "we cannot keep silent forever about the crimes of Stalin. These are crimes against millions and they cry out to be exposed. To pretend that they did not exist is to pervert millions of others...