Word: groth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gonna send you to the moon," he barks on The Honeymooners, his clenched fist waving. "To the moon, Alice." But if people on the one hand laugh off private violence, they become raving, sputtering mad about it too. "The pendulum swings to two extremes," says A. Nicholas Groth, a Connecticut prison psychologist. "Either people blame the victim, or see the offender as a fiend who ought to be castrated." As the analyses of private violence on the following pages show, the hard duty is to look straight at the problems and, neither laughing nor ranting, figure out what reasonable people...
...some circles coke is a barter item, readily accepted for dental work, as an accountant's fee or in exchange for a discount on a new car. "I have one friend who got stuck with staggering alimony payments," says Jim Groth, a Southern California newspaper editor. "He started dealing a little, and now he is paying off his wife in toot, and everybody is happy...