Word: sadistics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everybody in the picture who disapproves of homosexuals proves to be an ass, a dolt or a sadist. Nowhere does the film suggest that homosexuality is a serious (but often curable) neurosis that attacks the biological basis of life itself. "I can't help the way I am," says one of the sodomites in this movie. "Nature played me a dirty trick." And the scriptwriters, whose psychiatric information is clearly coeval with the statute they dispute, accept this sick-silly self-delusion as a medical fact...
...Quarry, by Friedrich Duerrenmatt. A sick old detective trapped in a sanitarium run by an arch sadist-each of them the other's quarry-provides the author of The Visit with a new set of grotesque mouthpieces for his macabre view of life...
That's the secret, really. Don't write out "TIME!!" in inch-high scrawls--it only brings out the sadist in us. Don't ('Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks--we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page--single-bluebook finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good five extra points if you can hack...
...sick and healthy, we arrive at his radical critique of culture. The prevailing ideas of society, he writes, rationalize the sickness of the majority while emphasizing the neuroses of the minority: "The exhibitionist is in the same class as all those other people labeled with the final 'ist,' the sadist, the masochist, the fetichist. They are in essence the same as ourselves, who call ourselves healthy; the sole difference is that we allow our desire to play only where custom permits, while the 'ist' is out of date...
...private scourgings in the desert to toughen himself. "Pain," wrote Lawrence, "was a solvent, a cathartic, almost a decoration to be fairly worn." Lawrence confessed that under the Turkish whiplashes and bayonets "a delicious warmth, probably sexual, was swelling through me." This realization converted Lawrence into the ruthless sadist who machine-gunned prisoners in cold blood...