Ovid
21) The Slasher
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Lieutenant Sam Johnson sat listening intently as the police psychologist spoke. "I'm afraid we're dealing with another sex crime. There's no question about it-think of how the bodies were mutilated. Also this killer will strike without reason or motive, and he will strike again and again until his morbid sexual desires are satisfied. "Lieutenant Johnson, the most experienced detective on the force, leaned forward. "And I'll tell you something, Doctor,"...
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CHARLES "LUCKY" LUCIANO was an Organization Man with a difference. The organization he belonged to was The Mafia-a natural setup for a vicious thug with unlimited ambition and a heart of ice. Murder by murder, rape by rape, he established the biggest chair of brothels ever seen in New York. Everything-everyone-he touched turned rotten. He knew he had it made when he had more cops on his payroll prostitutes. Pal of Al Capone, Frank Costello Buggsy...
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The American people were aroused to a white-hot anger. Clergymen of all faiths joined in prayer. Messages of sympathy came in from presidents, prime ministers, dictators, friends, crackpots, the morbid, the curious…THE LINDBERGH BABY HAD BEEN KIDNAPED! State, city and federal law enforcement groups vied with each other for publicity. Detectives, nationally known gangsters and charlatans offered their services as go-betweens. Reporters from all over...
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Marcel Issachar: a simple man caught in an accident of history during the early and mid-twentieth century: In the greatest upheaval the world ever experienced. An intellectual he is not: A Jewish pragmatist, snared into less than a pragmatic world.
He came to loath the Jewish God... he believed, He did not exist. He despised His little Jew Son... because, he had brought hope to mankind... then failed them and, what's more, that old bearded Jewish...
25) Ovid
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Konrad Beikircher über Ovid "Liebeskunst":
Die Schule, die ich in Bozen besuchte, war das Franziskanergymnasium und dieses legte Wert auf Latein und Altgriechisch. Ich gestehe: auch wenn ich kein As war, habe ich beides gerne gemacht. Was mich allerdings damals immer schon belustigt hat, war dieses hölzerne Altphilologen-Deutsch, in dem die Übersetzungen dahergestelzt kamen. Mit dem Abitur war das natürlich erst mal vergessen, bis ich mit zunehmendem...