Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...However excellent your reportage on the Viet Nam crisis has been, the photograph of a "beheaded victim of the Viet Cong" was less than tasteful. In fact, I saw a woman actually get sick on first seeing the picture while at lunch. It is rather improper to present a photograph which could only be appreciated by a sadistic, bloodthirsty group of morons...
Alberto Moravia is one of the leading money-changers in the fashionable temple of anxiety. He specializes in counterfeit intellectual currency: man is a hopeless victim of his own technology; sex is the only natural act remaining to man; life is just awful. It was awful in Moravia's early novels (The Woman of Rome, Conjugal Love), but somehow it was described with sensuous excitement. In his recent books (The Empty Canvas, Roman Tales), the excitement has progressively decelerated, and in the present collection of 41 short stories Moravia has attained what might most charitably be described...
Berries in the Fall. Albert Lasker, himself a cancer victim, died 13 years' ago at 73. But Mary kept moving, has involved herself in a dazzling variety of civic ventures. She makes her headquarters in a narrow, 71-story town house on Manhattan's fashionable Beekman Place. White, even to the furniture and the rugs on the floor, is the background -her paintings. There is a Monet a Picasso, a Lautrec. Five Matisses hang in the dining room; Van Gogh's Zouave over the living room couch faces a Renoir girl in a boat over the fireplace...
...heart operation, with the surgeon literally holding a life in his hand. To Dr. DeBakey both Presidents Kennedy and Johnson turned when they needed a man to head committees and commissions to recommend means by which Americans can get the best of medical and surgical care when they fall victim to heart disease, strokes or cancer...
...popliteal arteries supplying the legs and feet are common, and may actually begin in the aorta just before it splits to form the two main iliac arteries. A familiar feature of insufficient blood supply to the legs, which causes pain in the calf muscles so acute that the victim can hardly walk, is its on-again, off-again nature. Ten days after DeBakey has bypassed the blocked artery with a length of tubing, the patient who previously could walk no farther than a city block without disabling pain can usually go a leisurely mile...