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...wrong with the syndicate? Two or three of us get together on some deal and everybody says it's a bad thing. But those businessmen do it all the time and nobody squawks"), the back of his hand for the draft board that rated him a constitutional psychopath in 1943: "Who wouldn't pretend he was nuts to stay out of the Army? I told them I steal for a living. They thought I was crazy but I wasn't. I was telling them the "truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Covering the Mob | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...criminals. But in the International Zone of his North African vacation spot he becomes enveloped in evil so dense and tense that it seems part of the town's climate. There is, first of all, Marcovicz, a crippled German Jew whose mind seethes with injustice; he is a psychopath who has killed and is ready soon to kill again. Through him Dr. Chance meets an international crowd of idlers, gangsters, sex deviates and refugees from humanity who are to make his eight-day stay a nightmare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Theological Thriller | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...five years ago-Tonight's Jack Paar was conquering the West Coast with some of the most wildly funny shows of his career. Paar and guests (among them: Bob Hope, Groucho Marx, Hans Conreid) splashed inspired nonsense all over the screen. Biggest splasher: muffin-faced Pianist and Professional Psychopath Oscar Levant ("On my own show I wear black tie and strait jacket"). Oscar warmly congratulated Paar-"You have the most responsive audience since Adolf Hitler in the good old days"-offered capsule analyses of a few colleagues. Eddie and Liz: "How high can you stoop?" Elsa Maxwell: "The oldest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Busy Air | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...another form of blindness-jealousy. But the impact is marred by banalities of speech ("You know we can't go on like this") and the hero's unsympathetic character. For Donato seems not so much a good man tragically crippled by the loss of sight as a psychopath who happens to be blind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Blind, Burning & Bland | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...announced that, as a feature of the lunch, one of them had won an autographed copy of Lolita, the excited "ooooh" could be heard all the way to Larchmont. Few novels have stirred up so much critical controversy as Nabokov's account of a middle-aged psychopath's passion for a gum-chewing, teenage "nymphet" (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lolita Case | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

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