Word: crummiest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ANGER: The boy realizes he can talk without being criticized. His language becomes hostile toward his family, the experimenter, the law, and social customs. Arriving at the laboratory for his fourth meeting, David called the experimenter's tie "the crummiest" he had even seen. Later, looking out the window, he saw some construction workers, "See that guy out there? Going to mash his mouth...
Typical was David, 18, a reform school graduate described as "unreachable" and "psychopathic" He began by aimlessly complaining about everything from prison conditions to cops and fate. Then he got mad, called his interviewer's necktie the "crummiest" he had ever seen, peered out the window and snapped, "See that guy out there? Going to mash his mouth in." Then came despair: "I know there's no hope left to be anything. I'm sick, man, sick. Sometimes I feel like laying down in the street and never getting up. Dogs are my friends. They know. They...