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Final Hymn. Most sons would by now have felt that they had revenged themselves sufficiently on paternal piety. But not Crowley. "I want none of your faint approval or faint dispraise," he wrote, "I want blasphemy, murder, rape, revolution, anything, bad or good, but strong." When World War I began, he left Ouarda in an insane asylum and hurried to the U.S., where he spent the early war years writing pro-German propaganda for George Sylvester Viereck's The Fatherland...
...dormitories to stage a mass invasion of Sorority Row. They knocked down one house mother, swarmed up ladders and pillars, smashed windows, made off with 250 souvenir panties, girdles and brassieres. Next night, armed with pots of paint to daub their victims, they decided to re-enact the Rape of the Sabines, in the process thoroughly doused Dean Theos J. Thompson. "This has got to stop!" cried the dean. It did-after $700 worth of damage...
...Greek classics. The classics, he felt, had everything a sculptor could want, especially the story of how Jupiter disguised himself as a bull and carried the fair Europa off to Crete. Nakian spent five years pummeling and twisting the clay for a huge terra-cotta abstract of the Rape of Europa. "It was a tremendous, wild figure, more bizarre than Picasso or Henry Moore," but it lacked "greatness." Nakian destroyed it with blows of his sledge...
Gracious Living. In Catterick, Yorkshire, England, Mrs. Margaret Rose, 45, suing her army husband's commanding officer for attempted rape, was asked by the defense why she offered the accused a drink after their set-to, and explained: "It's the normal thing in our house to offer people a drink on leaving...
...subjectively, not through the eyes of one character, but through the eyes of each of those who took part in it. Set in 13th century Japan, the skeleton story concerns a bandit's attack on a man and his wife, the robbery and murder of the husband, and the rape of the woman. In Rashomon, this story is told four times--by the bandit, the man, the woman, and a hidden spectator. The teller's shame and conceit color each account, so that four completely different stories emerge, with only the barest similarity between them...