Word: statisticized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In London, when Trova showed them, they were called by one critic "the cumulative image of Man as victim, stereotype, faceless statistic." In Minneapolis, they typified, according to Curator Jan van der Marck, "the modern enigma." Trova himself has said, "The falling man is a personal hypothetical theory on the...
TOM came home in time, and Helen became an "attempt" instead of a coroner's statistic. Did she really want to die, or was she just making a gesture? Helen does not know now, and her ambivalence is typical; experts on suicide believe that most acts aimed at self...
Stamps account for about 40% of the industry's business, two weeks ago announced sales up 2% for the first nine months, to $248 million. That statistic does not reflect much of the current anti-stamp furor; many retailers who might be inclined to drop them are unable to...
On one TV station in one week, the author found 334 completed or attempted killings, mostly during youngsters' viewing time. The heroic figure in TV and movie drama is often the "victorious man of violence." Toy manufacturers fill the Christmas counters with toy guns and war games. Even Superman...
University of Maryland Sociologist Peter Lejins has urged key reforms in the FBI reports, which he himself helps prepare. Auto thefts, he says, should be divided between cars actually stolen for resale by seasoned pros and those merely "borrowed" and then abandoned by joyriding youths. Not impressed, the FBI has...