Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many thousands, perhaps millions, living, rotting like that in Iron Curtain countries." Explained Dr. Bone: "I was innocent [of the charge of being a British spy] but I was also guilty. I had been a Communist and I had helped build the machine of which I was the victim. That is why I am almost glad to have shared the sufferings of the many, many thousands more innocent than...
White supremacy came, as it seems to come to many U.S. college fraternities, to Northwestern University's chapter of Psi Upsilon, which has no racial-discrimination provision in its charter. The victim: Sherman Wu, a freshman and son of Nationalist China's onetime (1949-53) Formosan Governor K. C. Wu (Grinnell '23). Young Sherman, a bright and ingratiating chap, had been pledged by Psi U, broken bread with his fraternity brothers, even had his picture taken with them. But nobody told Wu that eight of his fellow pledges, all equally desirable fellows, had turned thumbs down...
...unsavory subject is a homosexual affair between a 13-year-old boy and his 30-year-old seducer, a gas-station attendant. Tesch borrows from Jones the neo-Dreiserian conviction that life itself is a four-letter word. Among Tesch's victims and vermin: a girl who commits incest and goes mad, a wife-beating lush, an aging sadistic homosexual. The most defenseless victim is the English language, e.g., "A pang of lonesomeness settled over him like a cold wet spray." Some might argue that Tesch was a born bad writer. But Gerald, an off-and-on Handy colonist...
These names are deliberately transparent pseudonyms for Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, in this fictionalized account by Novelist Meyer Levin of what he calls the "crime of our century." The real victim of Leopold and Loeb was 14-year-old Bobby Franks, and the dropped glasses gave them away. Only a brilliant defense by famed Lawyer Clarence Darrow saved them from hanging...
...sons of millionaires. They lacked nothing. They were brilliant students in law, science and languages; Leopold had a rating as "genius" in intelligence tests. Life offered them everything-and what it gave them was a 99-year-plus-life sentence in Illinois prisons. Loeb died in prison, the victim of a fellow convict's straight razor in a shower-bath row framed in homosexualism. Leopold lives on, a sad, heavy-set man of 51, deeply read in many languages, and fascinated by medical research which he works at along with his job as technician in the Stateville prison hospital...