Word: sadisme
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...Democrats on Capitol Hill say that bipartisan support of certain portions of your program have been endangered by certain statements which have been made by members of the Administration-statements ranging from the fact that the Democrats were soft to ward subversives in the Government to labels of political sadism. The Democrats have asked or suggested that you stop the statements...
Duggan's Lady for Ransom is told in the first person by an 11th century soldier-turned-monk who never raises his voice. In a Byzantine Empire setting in which rape and pillage were as common as piety, Author Duggan does not muster enough sex-and-sadism scenes to outfit a single chapter of many historicals. He simply tells a fine story full of color and action, informed with a sense of history as pervasive as it is unobtrusive. Professors trying to explain how the Turks were able to wallop the Christian armies of Byzantium could do much worse...
Between Dragnet and the pack is a qualitative difference. CBS's new The Man Behind the Badge, which borrows techniques both from Dragnet and The Big Story, may develop into a close rival. Badge skillfully adds a dash of sex to its sadism, and makes the dose palatable to the squeamish with a high-sounding dedication to such unsung public servants as probation officers, women wardens, youth counselors and tracers of missing persons...
From the novels, he would soon have learned that good literary taste is not what keeps bookstores in business. Nearly half the big moneymakers were historical novels running the short gamut from the trashy to the commonplace, strong on sex, sadism and sometimes even history, but woefully weak as writing. There were a few well-carpentered time killers by such canny old hands as A. J. Cronin and James Hilton, an occasional thoughtful and readable story-James Michener's The Bridges at Toko-ri, Herman Wouk's The Came Mutiny, now in its third year of best-sellerdom...
...Marie of the Isles, by Robert Gaillard; A. A. Wyn). The story of a single-minded girl who gets two doctors to certify that she still has her virginity so that she can lose it to the man she loves; told with a strong French accent on sex and sadism...