Word: wrest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sadistic & Sick. Less clear and distinctly alien is the rationale for Nunne's sadistic murders, all of which occur discreetly offstage. Novelist Wilson's argument is that crime is a thirst for freedom, a chance to wrest a heroic identity from a world of regimented boredom and blurring mediocrity. In a sick society, the superman becomes a monster. A trip to the morgue finally opens Gerard's eyes to the monstrosity of Nunne, but not before the reader has suffered much quasi-Nietzschean chatter to the effect that "if a man could kill all his illusions...
...Railroad, the $3 billion Investors Diversified Services group, and 50% of the Missouri Pacific Railroad's Class B stock. Last week Wall Streeters were betting that Anita Young would place her considerable savvy and stockholding behind one or more of the high-powered outsiders who are eager to wrest control of Alleghany from Kirby...