Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ward 7's Almazov finds that among the 150 men in the ward, there is just one "genuine patient," the only one who is the "victim of anything except his lot as a Soviet citizen." The rest of the inmates fall into three categories: 1) "the failed suicides, classified as lunatics because it was assumed (by doctors and politicians, writers and ideologists) that anyone dissatisfied with the socialist paradise must be a lunatic"; 2) the "Americans"-Russians who had tried to get in touch with a foreign embassy or with tourists, usually to emigrate; and 3) "the less clearly...
Biff smiled and the Chief went on. "We've identified the Mallinckrodt victim: another professor. This one also the chairman of his department. We also discovered that they both had large gambling debts...
Crimson number five man Richie Friedman demonstrated again yesterday that he is fast becoming the team's sure killer. This time the victim was Bob Dunlop, by a 6-2, 6-1 score. In his last four matches, he has lost a total of eight games...
...wheels of government turned ponderously to silence a critic in Yugoslavia last week. The victim was Mihajlo Mihajlov, 30, professor of literature at the university at Zadar on the Adriatic Sea, who, after a visit to Russia, wrote a frankly anti-Soviet piece for the Yugoslav monthly Delo (TIME, Feb. 19). Grabbed by police under pressure from President Tito himself, Mihajlov was charged with "deriding" a foreign government-a criminal charge in Yugoslavia...
...dichotomy," continues Moses, who earned an M.A. in philosophy at Harvard, "is whether you can cease to be a victim any more and also not be what Camus calls an executioner. The ideal lies between these two extremes -victim and executioner. For when people rise up and change their status, usually somewhere along the line they become executioners, and they get involved in subjugating other people. The problem is whether you can move Negro people from the place where they are now the victims of this kind of hatred to a place where they don't in turn perpetuate...