Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major named Judith Davidson, daughter of a Dallas postal clerk. "She sat in front of me," he recalls. "Instead of dropping a handkerchief for me to pick up, she left her books underneath the seat. The professor suggested that I return them to her, and I have been the victim of that conspiracy ever since." They were married in 1954, now have three children -William Cope, 6, Suzanne, 3, and John, 1-all, by some Mendelian long shot, blue-eyed blonds...
Then Flowers dropped his bombshell. He demanded the right to challenge all eleven "for cause."* "How can the State of Alabama expect a fair and just verdict in this case from men who have already sat in judgment on the victim and pronounced her inferior to themselves?" he asked. Judge Thagard denied the motion. But he gave Flowers time to seek a reversal in Alabama's Supreme Court...
...straw man is a compulsive blabbertongue who would rather rant than fight. The play is a petrified forest of conflicting themes. It can be variously regarded as a study in revolutionary disillusionment, an attack on revolutionary fanaticism or a defense of revolutionary intransigence. Danton can be seen as victim or traitor, Robespierre as scourge or hero, or both as merely hapless puppets in the lock-step march of historical determinism...
...distance" the audience from the unfortunate heroine. But no one doubted that his sympathies lay with Nana in that film, however formalistic his presentation. In The Married Woman one simply does not know whether he is subtly making fun of Charlotte or whether he is showing her as the victim of the sexuality that assails her from billboards, magazines, phonograph records, and even overheard conversations. Again, the philosophical discourses that have always marked Godard's films have all been enigmatic; though filled with tosh, they were strategically timed and lovingly staged, and one wondered to what extent they echoed...
...written, but Biographer Edwin Hoyt (The Vanderbilts and Their Fortunes) tells the same sick story everybody tells: bastard birth, maternal insanity, preschool rape, foster-family neglect, casting-couch apprenticeship, fanny-flipping fame, dismal marriages, barbiturate addiction, overdosed death. And he reaches the same solemn conclusion: Marilyn was the "innocent" victim of a corrupt society. Now really...