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...cope with a rash of get-rich-quick racketeering, the courts were permitted to decree death for counterfeiters, big-time embezzlers of public property and currency speculators. Fortnight ago, Moscow broadened the list of capital crimes to include such offenses as graft by public officials, assault on policemen, and rape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: The Crime on Everyone's Lips | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

...hysteria''), still tells stories that get scarier and scarier-and tells them so hypnotically that the public pays him over $200,000 a year not to stop. He is the nightmare merchant of Broadway, writer of Orpheus Descending (murder by blow torch), A Streetcar Named Desire (rape, nymphomania, homosexuality), Summer and Smoke (frigidity), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (impotence, alcoholism, homosexuality), Sweet Bird of Youth (drug addiction, castration, syphilis), Suddenly Last Summer (homosexuality, cannibalism), and The Night of the Iguana (masturbation, underwear fetishism, coprophagy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Angel of the Odd | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

...anybody except Communists to play Beethoven, says the East German magazine Forum, is "a serious provocation ... To listen to Beethoven over RIAS [American Radio in Berlin] is to approve a rape which freezes the blood.'' Forum even claims that the jubilant Seventh Symphony, which Beethoven wrote in 1812, expressed "the hope that a unified German democratic republic would result from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Symphony for Socialism | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

...painful, amusing attempts of a poor young Indian to impress two foreign ladies are nearly successful. Only one thing mars the picnic. Miss Quested, in a disturbed state, leaves the party and they return to Chandrapore without her-to discover that she has accused Dr. Aziz of attempted rape...

Author: By Joseph L. Fratherstone, | Title: A Passage to India | 1/15/1962 | See Source »

Like Tennessee Williams, for one. The picture begins with a casual case of rape. The victim is a college girl (Carroll Baker, in private life Mrs. Garfein) who goes skipping through a New York City park alone after dark. When she comes to, she tidies her clothes, staggers home, sneaks upstairs past her prudish parent (Mildred Dunnock). In a meticulous ritual of hysteria, she cuts up her torn clothes, flushes them down the drain, pops into bed as if nothing had happened, as if out of sight were really out of mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Wild & Woolly | 1/12/1962 | See Source »

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