Word: wantonness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hollywood's dark-haired onetime sex symbol, doe-eyed Hedy Lamarr, claims that the book billed as her "autobiography," Ecstasy and Me, My Life as a Woman, is "an obscene, shocking, scandalous, naughty, wanton, fleshy, sensual, lecherous, lustful and scarlet" treatment of her life. So for the second time she slapped a libel suit on its publisher and two coauthors, whom she accuses of distorting interviews with her -this time for $21 million. Still no cigar. The New York Court of Appeals has dismissed the case-not because the book isn't obscene, shocking, scandalous, etc., but because...
...Anti-Defamation Leagues of Philadelphia and Newark, which had sponsored the mail-in, were incensed. Said New Jersey League Official Robert Kohler: "It is the sin of waste in the face of hunger. It was wanton, cynical destruction of good food." Kohler and others claimed that many of the packages were marked with return addresses, but postal authorities insisted that only a handful were thus labeled, and that anyway, they feared a contamination hazard. Undeterred, the A.D.L. protesters intend to keep up their mail-a-matzo pressure on the Soviets...
Anarchic murder is not new. It occurred during the European plague epidemics of the 16th century, when hooligans plundered at will, sometimes cutting the throats of the sick. It was common during the Thirty Years War in the 17th century, when troops ravaged the countryside indiscriminately. New or old, wanton slaughter recalls the question posed by Nietzsche's red judge: "Why did this criminal murder?" Nietzsche's reply: "His soul wanted blood; he thirsted after the bliss of the knife...
Several years later a group of Senators, headed by Isolationist Burton K. Wheeler, weighed The Great Dictator and found it wanton. The mustachioed Adenoid Hynkel, they concluded accurately, was none other than the Chancellor of Germany. The film was one of a number of movies, including Sergeant York and I Married a Nazi, that were under investigation. They were warmongering propaganda, theorized the Senate subcommittee; it was all engineered by the New Deal. With timing characteristic of the Old Right, the subcommittee chose to attack Chaplin in the fall of 1941. Three months later Charlie was again rescued, this time...
...Even though the I.R.A. boasted that the Aldershot bombers had escaped to safety in Ireland, British police searched the homes of hundreds of Irish nationals living in England and held scores of Irishmen for questioning. Apart from the terrorists, almost everyone appeared to have been shocked by the latest wanton killing of civilians. Even Irish Catholic M.P. Bernadette Devlin, who a few weeks ago angrily stated that she "would not shed a single tear" for any British soldiers killed in revenge, admitted that the act of retaliation had gone "horrifically wrong." In Dublin, Irish Republican Prime Minister John Lynch "unreservedly...