Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crushing the Klan is tougher than infiltrating it. Local Southern juries ordinarily let Klansmen off no matter what the accusation. The only federal charge that can be leveled in most cases-such as in the Liuzzo murder-deals with "denying the civil rights" of the victim, and the maximum penalty for the crime is only ten years in prison. Even though Congress might now enact legislation outlawing the Klan, the deeper problem is that the law alone can never erase the Klan mentality...
What the patients had in common, the Mayo doctors report in the Archives of Internal Medicine, was the absence of any ascertainable disease that would clearly explain their trouble. The problem developed only rarely during the day, almost invariably when the victim was in bed. Then it was severe enough to awaken the sufferer, who could not get back to sleep until he had walked for a while. Some said they waked and walked as many as ten times a night...
...back of the ear (alluding to pederasty). It is even illegal to stare suggestively at a pretty girl, though every self-respecting Italian male does it. On the other hand, there is one splendid defense: not intentionally getting caught in the act. A silent insult made behind a victim's back may be ruled unintentional, even if it is seen reflected in a mirror or a window...
Unquestioning support of the U.N., often taken as a proof of virtue, is just as sentimental as unquestioning suspicion of the U.N., often taken as proof of patriotism. When John Kennedy referred to the U.N. as "the last best hope of mankind," he fell victim to one of the oldest, gravest dangers the U.N. faces: overoptimism. Exaggerated expectations can only lead to disappointment and cynicism. As Kennedy himself demonstrated in the Cuban missile crisis the following year, salvation lay not in the U.N.. but in a direct interplay of power and reason between the U.S. and Russia...
...illusions were soon shattered. On a trip to Harlem to do an article for the New York Times magazine, he was given a copy of the Civil Rights photo-essay collection, The Movement. One picture particularly caught his attention: it showed the burned body of a Negro lynch-victim lying on a pile of embers while a crowd of grinning whites leered out of the darkness behind. "That picture upset me for weeks," said Nakasa. "I had never known such personal fear, not even in South Africa." Nakasa had planned to travel through the South reporting on Civil Rights activities...