Word: defenselessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mailer, Money and the Defenseless...
Norman Mailer [July 16] is like Varathane: bright, hard, but you can see right through him. Poor Marilyn. It's not nice to make money from the defenseless dead...
...just in case you needed further proof that nothing really changes, Richard Nixon recently dredged up another of his notorious policies. In the past, the President has worked his way out of crises by slinging mud at some evil enemy who was oppressing poor, defenseless Richard M. Nixon. For example, he won election to the Senate by maliciously ripping into Helen G. Douglas...
Emphasis on the physical vulnerability of women in an abduction-murder situation is specious: against an attacker with a weapon even the strongest man would be equally defenseless. But to speculate as the Globe writer does, that the women were psychologically vulnerable, that their low selfimages and naive ideas of trust led them to victimize themselves, is more than specious; it is destructive. It is destructive because, although most of the time such analyses are presented as intelligent, informative discussions of women's problems, in reality they only serve to entrench the stereotypes they seek to illuminate...
...existence of antibodies?agents produced by the body in response to the challenge of disease-causing organisms?was discovered at the end of the 19th century. In the 1940s, doctors finally recognized that a badly functioning immune system, or the absence of one, can leave the body virtually defenseless against infection from without. But it was not until the early 1950s that Sir Frank MacFarlane Burnet, an Australian, theorized that the way the body manages to cope with the enormous range of disease organisms is through its ability to recognize itself and to reject everything that is nonself...