Word: sadisme
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...Sadism Gets Boost from School Kaisers...
Harvard leads the nation in promoting sadism among its students by allowing such a feature as face-slapping. The younger generation is being taught tolerance of most anything; shocked by very little. The higher education encompasses tolerance of sex experiences before marriage. There is a let down of strong moral feelings against having affairs outside the class room. Adventures of the minds of students no longer are apt to be mild and safe. With the "higher" learning there is implanted the fear of being a bit too stodgy. Schools seem to be producing precocious technicians who lean to believe life...
Spark of Life describes Mellern during the last few weeks of the war. It is the now familiar picture of men tortured beyond endurance, of torturers drugged with their own sadism. Starving men like 509 were continually on the edge of death; it was a daily surprise to wake up alive. Then the bombings and the approach of the Allies fanned the spark of life and gave a few of them the courage to hold on. No. 509 tried too, but he did not quite make...
When Clinton Truman Duffy became warden back in 1940, nobody expected that the prison would really change-even though he got the job because of public revulsion at the prison's sadism and corruption. San Quentin seemed to need a lion tamer, and Duffy was a mild, grey-haired little man who favored gold-rimmed spectacles and always wore a rosebud in his lapel. He was appointed temporarily, for only 30 days, while the governor looked for a more impressive crusader...
...lives and loves of his home, own, Fulton, Mo. (pop. 10,040). The first volume, Kings Row, published in 1940, leaded bestseller lists, sold more than a million copies, was made into a movie 'starring Robert Cummings and Ann sheridan) that kept much of the novel's sadism, incest and violence. After Bella-nann's death in 1945, his wife Katherine completed and published his Parris Mitchell of Kings Row. The third volume has never been written...