Word: sadism
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...solid youth who will go far, and the girl with bad blood who has come far enough. It was in orchestrating this hackneyed melody that Tinpanner Stong showed his real ability. And, whether as a sop to his own conscience or as a fillip to his fans' sentimental sadism, the conclusion was what cinemaddicts call unhappy. But readers closed the book in the faith that Hollywood's all-conquering love would surely be able to move this inconsiderable mountain...
...questionnaire which Mr. Anthony sent to jailing wives netted him -besides 109 blanks returned without comment, 29 vituperative letters and one communication threatening his person- 800 filled-out blanks which led him to state last week that 552 (69%) of the writers were maniacs suffering from psychoses bordering on sadism...
...Court." "As I stand at my window, seeing marching columns of Storm Troops," jotted down Simple Richard Roiderer in a notebook before his arrest, "I think to myself what slaves they are. A slavish loyalty to a bad cause and a bad leader! They represent the qualities of sadism, perversion and homosexuality that are misnamed in Germany today 'manliness'. "Honor: An 'honor' that delights in defending through brute force and not by the power of argument. An, honor that is too often a camouflage for national aggressiveness...
...been factually reported by ordinary journalists. The five judges of the People's Court took 45 minutes to draft a verdict of acquittal which would not be too dead a give-away of the New Justice. They could not say that Roiderer's jotted charges of homosexuality, sadism and camouflaged aggressiveness by some of the highest leaders of Germany were untrue, for their truth is a byword in Germany even to simpletons...
Thus Author Erich von Stroheim describes the preliminary grappling that leads to Paprika's fifth seduction. Before she is grudgingly made an honest woman she goes through eight such man-handlings. Modestly blurbed by Publisher Macaulay as a story that "uncovers with the blunt scalpel of realism the sadism inherent in the sexual plexus of a woman's being," Paprika takes the cake on several counts...