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Violence and Sadism. Scott's thesis would be scorned by such hard-nosed coaches as Leo Durocher ("Nice guys finish last") or the late Vince Lombardi ("Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing"). Though Scott is primarily interested in reforming college athletics, the ramification of his ideas nevertheless carries through all sports, from the professional game right down to the Little League. When Dave Meggyesy quit his $35,000 job as linebacker for the St. Louis Cardinals last season, he holed up in Scott's apartment for four months to write Out of Their...
Some of the chosen eponyms are familiar: the sandwich was once an earl; the pompadour a king's mistress; sadism originated with the Marquis de Sade. Many more are likely to surprise: maud lin is the old vernacular form of (Mary) Magdalene, usually pictured weeping: Jules Leotard was a 19th century trapeze artist; mausoleum derives from the tomb of "the wily satrap" Mausolus, in Turkey; and tawdry comes from the cheap souvenirs sold at the shrine of a 7th century Anglo-Saxon princess who was called St. Audrey...
...There have been Calleys in all wars, on both sides, who have vented their sick sadism upon prisoners of war, and who have found a multitude of gullible types who fall for their rationalizations...
...military considerations, but because of his failure to live up to his own personal vision. He is part Arab and part English, and only a superman would be able to bridge that cultural gap. Lawrence, with a fear of bloodshed which does not control his erratic sadism, and a masochism which is brought to the surface when he is tortured at the hands of a homosexual Turkish Boy at Deraa, is not the one to fulfill his dreams. When he finally frees Damascus, he and the Arab tribes fail to establish an effective governing federation. Longing for the life...
There is, however, the question of what comes first. Maybe pornography circulates freely because public standards have already changed; maybe people read about sadism because they are already sadistic. Political Scientist Wilson Carey McWilliams argues this point well: "Degeneracy becomes socially visible, emerging from underground, only when it has reason to expect a welcome. Certainly this is the case in relation to sexuality. Our verbal sexual morals had become nothing more than cant some time ago. Worse, they were a form of hypocrisy which discouraged respect...