Word: psychopathia
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...Tropic of Cancer, once the last word in unprintable scatology, can often be picked up in remainder bins for 25?. Miller has almost acquired a kind of dignity as the Grand Old Dirty Man of the trade, compared with some of the more current writers. Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis is out in two new editions, which for the first time render all those horrendous Latin passages in English-and, surrounded by the author's quaint 19th century moralizing, they seem tame alongside Candy or Norman Mailer's An American Dream...
...lonely merit. From this tale of a childlike drift-and-dream girl, her aggressive mother and restless brother, Williams later fashioned The Glass Menagerie, and the story, like the play, is evocatively moving and moon-haunted. For the rest, One Arm reads too frequently as if the chapters of Psychopathia Sexualis had been raided for TV skits...
...fearing to be murdered by one of the king's henchmen, Slade has small thanks for his services to democracy. "Nada, Senor," says a philosophical waiter. "There is no importance." The waiter sums up the book well enough; even when turned upside down, given a dash of Psychopathia Sexualis and a medium-sad ending, these refugees from Graustark are still from Graustark...
...effective, plays concerning psychopathia sexualis must at least edge the subtlety of that subject, and this one doesn't. In addition, redhaired, wild-eyed Elsa Lanchester, wife of Actor Charles Laughton, makes herself a sort of living lexicon of theatrical grimaces and is not very sinister...