Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Discussing the literacy aspects of the novel, Poggioli said that "one can call Zhivago a morality play: its message is the message of individualism." Zhivago, he explained, "is a passive victim of his ordeal, but he triumphs over his ordeal even in death...
...About 35 men had met at a farm outside Poplarville, but lynch justice was not their immediate aim. Rather, they were looking for ways to prevent a crowning indignity: the courtroom questioning by Parker's Negro attorney on the sexual attack of the 24-year-old white rape victim. Fired by beer, whisky and hot speeches during a two-hour meeting, the plotters eventually hit upon a scheme. By paper ballot, at least ten men were chosen to lynch Parker. They...
...Parliament itself is discredited in the public mind, Parliament must not assert its "harassing" power against the government. Added Debre: "My words are not dictated by a taste for theory but by the memory of the distortion of parliamentary methods that since 1872 has made the state its first victim. Democracy is a matter of great patience. It may be amusing to revise a government every six months, but true democracy lies in governmental stability between national elections. Those who criticize me most will recognize later how much they are obligated...
...powerful Orano was by this time gnarled and weakened, his handsome face disfigured, his blue eyes clouded.) But the promises were soon forgotten. Roman bureaucrats enforced the letter of antiquated Italian law. They let the faithful Giulia live with him in an isolated cottage (he is the only leprosy victim in Spallanzani), forced her to take full care of him, gave him little treatment. Once he broke out to make a placarded public protest-in vain. Again his "acquaintance are verily estranged" from him. The few who try to visit him are kept out by the Ministry of Health...
...move has been made to change Italian law in line with the ringing declaration of the 1956 congress. And that congress recommended dropping the word "leper" because of its incrustation of moral connotations, substituting "leprosy victim" or "leprosy patient." But Italian officialdom has changed in neither word nor deed: Marcello Orano, hero of 1941, is in 1959 nothing but a leper...