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Stop Lights & Fireplugs. It is, said Sorokin, "downright dangerous to jump to the conclusion that an act which you have committed, or commit frequently, is all right simply because you can mention a sexual-research project that proves you've got plenty of company. In this country there are large numbers of automobile drivers who have a habitual contempt for traffic laws. They speed, forget to signal, pass stop lights and obstruct fireplugs when they park. But their growing numbers do not make their crimes 'all right' . . . Sexual behavior, like any other kind, must be tested...
Suicide Alone. "We are not so much interested in getting German troops," said he, "as we are in a situation in which the Western nations, especially France and Germany, will not commit suicide." He paused. "But if they decide to commit suicide, they may have to commit suicide alone...
Last week the judge gave each of the fathers six months' suspended sentence with a warning that "if your children commit any more thefts, you will serve the six months in jail." It was the first time in Texas that a parent has been held liable to imprisonment for the crimes of his children. It was also the first time in many a long month that quiet has reigned in Rosenberg...
That night the chief interrogator came to Dean and told him he would be tortured in the morning. He thought of splinters to be thrust under fingernails and set afire to make a man talk. Dean, who had become increasingly depressed, decided to commit suicide. "Dean," he told himself, "you don't know whether you can take it or not. You might talk. You'd better kill yourself...
Tragedy of Hormones. When in 1920 his father saw his first Broadway hit, Beyond the Horizon, a bitter domestic drama, he grumbled: "Are you trying to send the audience home to commit suicide?" But the audiences seemed to enjoy the beating they took. In the ripe years 1920-35, O'Neill made almost $1,000,000. Three plays (Horizon, Anna Christie, Strange Interlude) won the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1936, he became the second American (after Sinclair Lewis) to win the Nobel Prize for Literature...