Word: perverted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jean Genet, as a dedicated pervert, might write lyrically of this shameful ?lace, but not so First Novelist Floyd Salas, 25, who spent time in similar institutions before winning a boxing scholarship at the University of California, later a master's degree in English at San Francisco State College. More realistically than Genet, Salas looks back in anger. Unhappily, the anger and obscenity get the better of his prose. On every page, hyperbole and hypertension batter good sense to a pulp magazine...
Vincento, the Duke, can't bear to bring the law down on his citizens himself. So he appoints a deputy. Then he sticks around in disguise--he wants to see whether power will pervert the poor deputy. Angelo, the once-Puritan deputy, threatens Isabel: Either you sleep with me or I'll have your brother killed for sleeping with that girl. Isabel, the heroine, with majestic certitude: "More than our brother is our chastity." A cutup from an Ex bench: "Come off it, sistah...
...time loser who has spent a good part of his first 35 years in reformatories and jails, Genet doubtless knows the con's language like a native, but when it comes to English equivalents, Translator Frechtman has no luck at all. Genet, who is a practicing pervert and retired male prostitute, presumably knows the camp language exchanged by consenting adults. And it is hard to believe, for example, that a kiss between homosexual males should be described as "a smack"-a word which had some facetious currency about the time of Diamond Jim Brady and Lillian Russell. Criminal Hierarchy...
...these times of euphemism-of a softening of language as soft as the brains of those who are softening it-let us not forget that Whitman was a bully, a pervert and a coward. He was a pervert in that he enjoyed murdering more than not murdering. He was a coward in that he fled his problems through death-and had not the courage to take his own life, but forced the responsibility on another...
...murmur ominously, "beware of Greeks bearing gift horses in the mouth." Or, preparing to leave Cambridge at last, he may sigh: "home is where you hang your hat it." For these bemused undergraduates we offer a little game to be played on the long car ride home: Pervert-a-Proverb. The sayings to be spoonerized may be drawn from Aesop or advertizing. No matter. Here are a few easy warmer- uppers. (Answers are on page...