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...growing number of today's students, however, there seems to be no excuse for hazing, except perhaps to provide a trip for a junior Marquis de Sade. Hazing is clearly much less prevalent than it was during the college days of the current undergraduates' parents. One reason: whether it is outlawed or not, most students will not accept it. Says Senior Steve Taylor, president of the Zeta Psi house at the University of California at Berkeley (a position his father held 25 years ago after being branded on the arm as a pledge): "All that stuff, tubbing, paddling...
...when Stephanie marries Paul and settles into an American country wifehood that the teasing promise of her intricate and highly individual childhood declines toward case history, and static, predictable domestic woe. Stephanie's cries rise to heaven like those of De Sade's Justine, a girl, one recollects, with far more justification for complaint. Paul, Stephanie grants, is a splendid lover, a fine husband, a kind man, a devoted father-as handsome, she reports, as Jimmy Stewart. But he doesn't want to live in the city. And he doesn't talk to Stephanie enough...
Oshima extrapolated the film from a real incident. In Tokyo in the 1930s, a prostitute concluded her love affair with a gangster by castrating him, then wandered the streets for several days carrying his severed sex organs. Haunted by Genet and Mishima, animated by memories of De Sade, Oshima splashes a devious course to this bloody resolution. He has the gangster and the whore coupling incessantly, in attitudes reminiscent of the delicate rough-and-tumble of erotic Japanese watercolors. The point of all this-that the full realization of passion is its own justification, that death is the ultimate orgasm...
...formally censured by the Senate. Thus it is that McCarthyism (a word coined by cartoonist Herblock) has become the dictionary term for ruthless and reckless mudslinging and demagogic suppression of criticism; and he will live on in our lexical language with such other extremists as the Marquis de Sade, William Lynch, Thomas Bowdler, Vidkun Quisling, and Anthony Comstock...
Cornell's imagination was allusive, delicate and, in a liberated way, reserved. He had no interest in the erotic, scatological and sadistic images that were basic to French surrealism: the Comte de Lautréamont and the Marquis de Sade did not preside over the house on Utopia Parkway. French surrealism was to a great extent defined by its indispensable enemy, French bourgeois Catholicism. Surrealism's whole mode of attack-the manifestoes, shock treatment and sacerdotal gesticulation-was based on an idea of the artist as public figure, the Anti-Priest, to which Cornell did not subscribe...