Word: sadism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faithfully copying his companions' "indescribably profane and obscene conversation.'' Somewhat mysteriously Dr. Canby likens the result to Tom Brown's School Days, although he describes The Mint in terms that scarcely suggest Thomas Hughes's high-minded classic: "It is an old story:-the sadism of dogs in office, the surprising resiliency of human nature in these men who were being broken ... to obedience, blind, stupid obedience to fit them for service in a new realm where intelligence and self-dependence were indispensable." What Dr. Canby did not say is that The Mint...
...Tattooing is "related to narcissism, exhibitionism, inspectionism and skin-eroticism; to inversion, masochism, sadism, mutilations and sword-swallowing." -Dr. Frances Joseph Gerty, Chicago...
...solid youth who will go far, and the girl with bad blood who has come far enough. It was in orchestrating this hackneyed melody that Tinpanner Stong showed his real ability. And, whether as a sop to his own conscience or as a fillip to his fans' sentimental sadism, the conclusion was what cinemaddicts call unhappy. But readers closed the book in the faith that Hollywood's all-conquering love would surely be able to move this inconsiderable mountain...
...questionnaire which Mr. Anthony sent to jailing wives netted him -besides 109 blanks returned without comment, 29 vituperative letters and one communication threatening his person- 800 filled-out blanks which led him to state last week that 552 (69%) of the writers were maniacs suffering from psychoses bordering on sadism...
...been factually reported by ordinary journalists. The five judges of the People's Court took 45 minutes to draft a verdict of acquittal which would not be too dead a give-away of the New Justice. They could not say that Roiderer's jotted charges of homosexuality, sadism and camouflaged aggressiveness by some of the highest leaders of Germany were untrue, for their truth is a byword in Germany even to simpletons...