Word: schizoid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sylvester Johnson and Stanley Cassidy, now awaiting execution in New Jersey, were implicated by a confederate's coerced confession in the 1958 holdup murder of a toyshop operator in Camden. Johnson, then 21 and a schizoid, asked a magistrate for a lawyer, was refused, and confessed after twelve hours. Cassidy, then 25 and "regressed," received no warning and confessed during 20 hours' grilling. Because both convictions were final before Escobedo, they pose the retroactivity riddle. ¶ Ernesto Miranda, 23, an "emotionally ill" truck driver, received 25-and 30-year sentences in 1963 for robbing a woman and kidnaping...
...film to date. In it, a reporter feigns incest to gin admittance to a state mental institution so that he can track down the killer or a patient. Inside the asylum, Fuller subjects the reporter to a 90-minute horror show of shock treatments, nymphomaniac outbursts, sexual degeneracy, catatonia, schizoid fantasy, and psychotic gluttony. Shock Corridor is the Marat/Sade of film, a moody, almost choreographed, nightmare...
...Schizoid Progress. The trial drew much attention. Outside the courthouse last week, some 30 of Sinyavsky-Tertz's students from the Institute of World Literature stationed themselves defiant ly, despite deep snow and 6-below-zero temperature. More important, the trial illustrated the curiously schizoid prog ress of Soviet justice. Never before in a Soviet court had two authors been accused of "political crimes" on the basis of their literary output alone, and the inevitable convictions would set a disastrous legal precedent for esthetic freedom in Russia. On the other hand, a trial conducted with press coverage marked some...
...aging columnist and the California editorialist hardly seemed to be talking about the same thing. But their disparate readings of the Hawaiian conference were symptomatic of the whole U.S. press. The conference, said the Detroit Free Press, was a disaster that "brought into sharp focus the schizoid personality of our foreign policy." That wasn't the conference reported by the Washington Post, which found that it "did what it obviously was intended to do from the beginning." It brought together "officials who are going to have to work together if the war is to be skillfully conducted...
Yahoo Obsession. Author Dennis studies the Travels as a morbid acrostic of Swift's character. In Part IV, for instance, there are striking suggestions that Swift at this period of his life was dangerously schizoid, that he was identifying with the rational-spiritual principle (the Houyhnhnms) and repressing the animal aspect of his nature (the Yahoos). In any case, the horror and tragedy of Swift's old age are clearly foretold in the leading characteristic of the Yahoos: their excessive concern I with ordure. From that time forward, scatological allusions litter his prose and befoul his poetry...