Word: sadisme
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...that by the government's standards, "Dante's Divine Comedy would have to be considered a political libel and Hamlet an incitement to matricide." Composer Ginastera, pointing to the libertine antics of such operatic heroes as Don Juan, the unmarried exploits of Tristan and Isolde, and the sadism of Salome, suggested tartly that the government should have done with it and suppress all operas. Which it might well do if Ongania ever got hold of the librettos...
Think how simple and simpatico James Bond is (he eats, sleeps, kills, drives a car). And how much sadism his movies get away with. The sadism could be even more serious if Bond weren't amoral. Nobody can entrust his heart, even for a picayune 90 minutes, to a man who doesn't give a damn. So the camera can't linger over the agony he creates (a knife in the back) or escapes (poison in the tea). Bond has our sympathy only in limited amounts...
...connoisseur of "serious" music may sample Bomarzo, the hero of which is "sexually ambivalent and frustrated, ghost-ridden, and obsessed with death." One shudders to consider the effects of Mr. McLendon's taste on works such as Tristan und Isolde (premarital sex), Salome (fetishism and degeneracy) and Wozzeck (sadism and murder). "English records that deal with sex, sin and drugs" are what make the best popular music true, if controversial art, precisely because they deal with an imagery that is valid for youth today...
...this man as the Hen, and his prison as the Henhouse. At first, the sessions between Y and warder seem to be a form of psychotherapy. But there is something sinister in the Hen's objective; he seems to want Y to wallow in instances of minor childhood sadism. When Y balks and refuses to go to sessions, he is methodically starved. Only when his litanies of guilt sound convincing to the Hen is he introduced to a group of others like himself. Y quickly becomes their natural leader and scon decides that he, too, would make a good...
They told of DeSalvo's own sadism, of his cruelty to animals, of his witnessing unnatural sex acts within his own fam ily. By the time DeSalvo was an adult, said the defense, "there had developed one of the most crushing sexual drives that psychiatric science has ever encountered." Between 1962 and 1964, the drive erupted into the 13 sex murders that terrified the Boston area. DeSalvo was a violent schizophrenic, said the defense experts, and he was unquestionably insane...