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Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number (TIME, June 15) is a riveting tale of a man who underwent unspeakable torture and survived. In horrifying detail, exiled Argentine Publisher Jacobo Timerman, 58, details the sadism, brutality and anti-Semitic abuse he suffered during 30 months of imprisonment in Argentina between 1977 and 1979. His recently published book is also a devastating indictment of Argentina's junta, which the Council on Hemispheric Affairs has called the most flagrant violator of human rights in Latin America...
...Weathermen during the Days of Rage in Chicago in 1969; Jody Adams '69 writes movingly about the University Hall bust--"Inside, With Arms Linked, the Kids Awaited the End"--with fire and anger and sadness. "The Quest for the Cocktail Soul at Princeton," written in 1960, effectively reveals the sadism and bigotry of Princeton's "Bicker" process by which sophomores are elected to private eating clubs...
Confused with alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, junk food, marijuana, overweight, generation-gap, aging, public opinion, mastery-enslavement, sadism-masochism ecclesiasticism, unwanted children, abortion, venereal disease, bitterness, fear, doubt, envy, rivalry, suspicion, humorlessness, legal marriage, desertion, divorce, infidelity, paternity actions, court suits, money scramble and a multitude of other demands it is difficult to see sex clearly. Mae West conquers all these. She shows sex can be beautiful. Henry Ratliff
...cannot confront. The struggle between Dysart and Alan (and their private bouts with their respective neuroses and psychoses) is at the core of Equus, giving the drama its chess-match tension as two fierce wills clash and two magnificent intellects trick and torment the vulnerable souls possessing them. Sadism and compassion feed on each other as Dysart and Alan peer, with frightening perception, into one another's heart of darkness, at once attracted and repelled by what they...
...those people who try to get on the show, I suggest the title That's Incredible Masochism. For those people who watch the show, I suggest That's Incredible Sadism as a suitable title...