Word: sexualism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...women scurried furtively along cold, windswept streets. Husbands hurried home to be with their wives, and there was a run on locks-though, as authorities dourly admitted, the man they were after could open just about any lock in existence. Albert DeSalvo, 35, the self-confessed "Boston Strangler" and sexual felon, had escaped...
...little doubt that he was indeed the man who had murdered and, in several cases, savagely mutilated 13 women in 18 months between 1962 and 1964 (TIME, Jan. 27). He bragged in fact that he had raped from 1,000 to 2,000 women during a bizarre career of sexual perversion that started when he was a child. Defense Attorney F. Lee Bailey, who tried unsuccessfully to establish that his client was insane, claimed that DeSalvo was a "completely uncontrollable vegetable" and "could disintegrate at any point...
There is evidence that he might be looking in new directions. He sometimes sounds as if he thought the sexual revolution were over, thanks to Playboy, and that it is now time to move on to other social and economic challenges. Even the country's gross national product seems to interest him. "A publication," he wrote, "that helps motivate a part of society to work harder, to accomplish more, to earn more in order to enjoy more of the material benefits described?to that extent, the publication is contributing to the economic growth of the nation...
Crimeds talk to the people who fascinate them--politicians, military men, agitators. They write about the things that intrigue them--poverty programs, sexual mores, nuclear physics. They learn about Harvard, they learn about journalism, and they learn about the world...
This first novel, which relates eight days in King's life, contains enough action-both lethal and sexual-to flesh out a sociological study of Harlem, and enough profanity to outfit a platoon of Marines. Shane Stevens has invented an idiom for his swaggering teen-agers that gives pungency to King's occasional meditations. On school, for example: "Everyone shouting and screaming and nobody care about what they is going on. But at least it somewhere to stay away from when they make you go." And on the purpose of fighting gangs: "In this bizness you got have...