Word: sickness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...letters of Jones's followers show their awe and affection for him, even when they were uncomfortable with his actions. He looms over them not as an autocrat, but as a beneficent master. We may call him sick and ruthless, yet we must admit he held some uncanny attractiveness--and he hardly seems mad, at least not until his last days in Jonestown...
...Stefan Pasternack, associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine. "They have a desire to be part of something meaningful. In joining, they regress and relax their personal judgments to the point that they are supplanted by the group's often primitive feelings. With a sick leader, these primitive feelings are intensified and get worse. The members develop a total identity with the leader and in the process take on his sickness...
...charges outlined against Thorpe were certainly bizarre. According to the prosecution, Thorpe had conspired to murder a former homosexual lover, a down-and-out male model named Norman Scott, 37; Thorpe was said to have argued that killing Scott would be no worse than "shooting a sick...
...cynical '70s Kennedy fell victim to history's need of a scapegoat. The nation was sick, disillusioned, embittered. Idealism had given way to disappointment and the sins of Johnson and Nixon were visited upon Kennedy. He was portrayed as the villain of the piece...
...Hitler would bring the Four Freedoms to everyone. But I couldn't paint that today. I just don't believe it. I was doing this best-possible-world, Santa-down-the-chimney, lovely-kids-adoring-their-kindly-grandpa sort of thing. And I liked it, but now I'm sick of it." In the '60s, glimpses of a less Arcadian society surfaced in his work?most memorably, an illustration of U.S. marshals escorting a small black girl to school in Little Rock, Ark. But these did not represent the essential Rockwell as far as his public was concerned. What they...