Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...does not quite measure up to the high standard that you have set. On the other . . . McCarthyism has this year become the world's top anti-American issue ... at home, our idea of a perfect Roman holiday is to sit before a TV set and watch a McCarthy victim squirm behind the Fifth Amendment...
Robert Burns followed his regimen so strenuously that at his death in 1796, he was known not only as Caledonia's bard but as the Scottish Casanova. Popular legend made him a victim of wine, women and song. Less censorious, and more in accord with modern views, Byron saw Burns forever riding the pendulum of a split personality: "Sentiment, sensuality, soaring and groveling, dirt and deity." Some of the best evidence for and against Burns the man-his robust, personable letters-has been sifted for the first time in two decades by a Brooklyn College English professor, DeLancey Ferguson...
...state of [his] own mind" than by any problem that may be on the ghost's mind. Moreover, abstract art and surrealism seem to have made an impression on ghost fashions; e.g., some current phantoms do not bother to represent anything at all but simply join the victim in bed on a dark night, remaining strictly intangible and indefinable. The advance-guard ghosts in this collection include one which appears simply as a spot of green slime and goes "drip, drip, drip" on the sleeper's face, and another which disguises itself as a strip...
...Victim of the schedule shuffling, the Inter-House Cross Country run, originally scheduled for the day, was put off until next Thursday in order not to interfere with the two games...
...fire's victim was a 42-year-old Spaniard named Michael Servetus. His crime, for which he had been duly tried and sentenced: religious heresy. Specifically, it was his denial of infant baptism and the doctrine of the Trinity. (The minister who accompanied him to the stake later observed that, had Servetus switched adjectives, and called on "the Eternal Son of God," he might have saved his life.) Last week, for the 400th anniversary of Servetus' death, Roland H. Bainton, one of Protestantism's foremost modern historians (Here I Stand, The Reformation of the 16th Century), brought...