Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Staircase in favor of chess, has scarcely touched a brush to canvas since. Last week, along with witty reminders of his bumptious youth, he displayed his first artistic creation in 15 years, a tiny pencil drawing of a chessman. Said Marcel, who lives in Manhattan: "I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art-and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position...
Settled in 1630, the Common was a "rough frontier camp" which extended as far as Linnaean St. and covered Harvard Square. It was the scene of garrison maneuvers and town elections. One year, Cambridge fell victim to its first political stalemate when the chairman of the election assembly, believing that his man could not win, refused to open the meeting. A man sitting in one of the traditional elms suddenly yelled out that those present should open the show; they did. This was the first exhibition of free, popular government in Cambridge...
Incidentally, Ronnie Knox, during the war, was the victim of one of life's most amusing little ironies. He had always been a kindly misogynist, and was genuinely distressed by the close presence of females. However, the manor house where he had retired to translate the Bible was, as a wartime emergency, inundated with teen-age students from a London convent, and Ronnie was forced to spend most of his war listening to the confessions of hundreds of female adolescents. Being a great and humble priest, he undoubtedly bore this cross eagerly and brilliantly...
...Lady), and the work and the talk increased proportionately. Pacing the floor of his executive's office, amid the constant clangor of telephone bells and interoffice squawkers, his quick temper frequently boils over. After one of these outbursts, he broods for a while, then seeks out his victim in contrition. "I'm always apologizing to somebody," he says. He has acquired that final badge of executive success, a gastric ulcer. In 1950, after finishing Jet Pilot (still unreleased) for RKO, Duke decided to take Chata and himself on his first vacation in more than ten years. A trip...
Novels whose "heroes" are impotent victims of life are at least as old as Franz Kafka and his stories of Central European decay (TIME, April 28, 1947). Let It Come Down shows the point such novels have reached in the last decade or two. In the Kafka world, the victim-hero was still able to react to his miseries with horror. In the Bowles world, the victim-hero is both amoral and numb. He will commit any crime in order to give himself the feeling of having "a place in the world, a definite status, a precise relationship with...