Word: perverting
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...month ago he was anathema: the Yellow Peril, the shameless Pervert of True Marxism-Leninism, the terrible Trotskyite Deviationist and Splitter. Last week, as he stood bundled in a greatcoat and karakul cap atop Lenin's Tomb watching the rockets roll by, Red China's Chou En-lai presumably was still all these things to the fallen Nikita Khrushchev, who was nowhere to be seen, and possibly to many other Russians who have little love for the Chinese. But officially he was the honored guest from the great fraternal Chinese People's Republic, and this just three...
...Y.M.C.A. washroom just two blocks from the White House and charged with "disorderly conduct (indecent gestures)." Moreover, newsmen checking into Jenkins' police record discovered that on Jan. 15, 1959 he had been arrested in the same washroom on a charge of "disorderly conduct (pervert...
Later, the police listed the charge on the blotter, in black ink, as "disorderly conduct." Still later, in a different hand in blue ink, the word "pervert" was added in parentheses...
...artificial muse? Has she really led him out of the neurosis that held him prisoner? Or is he using her psychotically, in a way she could never understand, to seek punishment for his traumatic "war-crime" and relieve his guilt? If we decide positively on either side we pervert the tragedy by transforming it into a social "message." Bourguignon deepens the impact of his conclusion by this ambiguity. Our response never admits rights or wrongs. We have perceived the nature of Pierre's love through too many eyes...
...mammoth U.S. corporation would blandly ignore a $6,000,000 auditing discrepancy in Antonescu's books just to get the telephone number of a boy who has taken his fancy. The boy (Barry Justice) is Antonescu's illegitimate son, and the father is dangling him as pervert bait to land a merger that may save his Depression-gored financial empire. While waiting for this rococo rotter to tot up his accounts with a final bullet, idle-minded theater partygoers may wonder, in days to come, whether this playscript was found in Terence Rattigan's typewriter...