Word: sadisme
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...months from now, the incident will undoubtedly appear in print, considerably embellished, and the opening sentence may well be something breezy like "There is an automobile loose on the streets of New York with two of my fingers." This will be followed by several hundred words about the professional sadism of doctors, the difficulty of opening a jar of instant coffee with one hand bandaged and the intricacies of Blue Cross ("Until now I'd always thought the term 'major medical had something to do with the armed services"). Undoubtedly there will also be a report...
...many a viewer also dreams of catching Allen Funt unawares. The possible situations are endless. Have someone dress up as the sponsor and cancel the show? Or a phony lawyer suing for a million dollars? Just such visions make up the cozy, everyday sadism on which the show thrives...
...Brother Funt has not run out of situations to exploit, although only 10% of his film footage ever proves usable. Most of it is too dull, and much too embarrassing to be shown. "We get a large number of suggestions." says he, "that reveal a kind of frightening sadism in people. School children ask us to trap their teachers in undignified or compromising situations. Little businessmen plead with us to capture the off-the-record attitudes of their large competitors. Ordinary citizens want us to catch policemen unawares...
...Streetcar Named Desire may not be Tennessee Williams' most perverse play (Garden District concentrates on such themes as sadism and homosexuality with greater relish), but I find it his most disturbing and powerful one. It doesn't rely on gimmicks, SYMBOLS like venus flytraps and half eaten baby turtles for its impact, but rather on the conflict which causes the slow psychological disintegration of its heroine, Blanche DuBois. The tension is inherent in the play's dramatic situation, in the human relationships it explores, and that tension should rise slowly from the very first scene to the play's piercing...
...about the dissoluteness of much of the United States convey quite clearly the authors' views that individual freedom is more than freedom from federal legislation. They would much rather equate freedom with a phrase they use frequently, "human dignity," and understandably do not consider padding expense accounts, exploiting latent sadism, or refusing to serve Negroes particularly dignified...