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...Atlantic in its immense indifference was not aware that man-made cables on its slimy bottom contained news, that the silent heavens above pulsed with news-news that would set thousands of printing presses in motion, news that would make sirens scream in every U. S. city, news that would cause housewives to run out into backyards and shout to their children: "Lindbergh is in Paris...
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...prey sexually on young girls, sometimes barely past infancy, in the household. Some examples: ¶"All the time my father would be having sex he would be telling me I really liked it or telling me what a great body I had," writes Linda Halliday, 36, in The Silent Scream, her autobiographical account of how her father had regular intercourse with her, as well as with her three sisters, from the time she was seven until she was 16. "I would fight the waves of vomit that washed over my body but never made it past my throat...
More and more rape victims are refusing to withdraw into a silent scream. They no longer readily accept any portion of blame in a society that has traditionally been ambivalent about siding with them. In the past decade, as women have gained greater equality, women's groups have coalesced across the country to work to bring rape out of a miasma of shame, insensitivity and injustice. In many ways, the crusade has paid off. There has been widespread improvement in the way rape victims are treated by the police, courts and hospitals. There are now more than 700 rape crisis...
Franz Biberkopf presses his hands to the sides of his head, as if he were about to pulverize a rancid cantaloupe, and screams. He staggers wildly about the apartment-house courtyard, its high walls allowing the merest tantalizing glimpse of sky. This is Germany, 1927. As the nation spun from the humiliation of Versailles to economic and social anarchy, and then into the toxic delirium of the Third Reich, so Franz spins. A laborer and part-time pimp who has just been released from prison after serving four years for beating a girlfriend to death, Franz has few resources...