Word: psychopathic
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...island for three days, and during that time a 13-year-old girl is found bruised and dead at the foot of a seaside cliff. All the evidence points to Mathias, but always there seems the faint chance that his part in the crime is merely a psychopath's figment...
Jungle Waif. The central Beat character that unintentionally emerges is a model psychopath. The hipster has a horror of family life and sustained relationships. In a brilliant, poignant story, Sunday Dinner In Brooklyn, Anatole Broyard recounts the ordeal of a highbrow Greenwich Village bohemian returning for an hour or two of strained parental nuzzling. Says the hero plaintively: "I realized that I loved them very much. But what was I going to do with them?" The hipster is also estranged from nature. In George Mandel's The Beckoning Sea, the suicide-bent hero runs screaming along a beach...
...Idyll, a nine-year-old girl is picked up by a charming psychopath who has escaped from a mental hospital. Why would a youngster living in a peaceful English village with devoted, decent parents find such an acquaintance rewarding? The answer lies in a bracketed look at 1) the parents' possessive dullness, 2) the child's imagination and romantic thirst for life, brought into play for the first time when the madman's own imagination reaches out in sympathy and need. Conventionally, this ominous encounter ends well after a long spell of breath-holding on the part...
...book is very highly respected in the field; as Professor Glueck noted, McCord has done invaluable work in defining the concept of the psychopath, a concept which was very unclear before. McCord's work with the psycopath, a person with very little conscience, is closely linked to his other major interest, that of the development of conscience. He plans to do his "magnum opus" on the latter subject within the next ten years...
...provided a sensitive study of what it is like to be in love with a hokum Yokum. And then the villain hits the top. He goes hog-wild, and so does Director Kazan. Instead of keeping the menace down to life size, the script permits its corn-fed psychopath to sphacelate through the U.S. social body like some malignant growth, until he actually threatens to take over the Federal Government. As the driving force of a fascist-tinged political movement. Lonesome Rhodes is promised a Cabinet post as Secretary for National Morale. But by this time the moviegoer...