Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Rebecca Craighill Lancefield was a child around the turn of the century, scarlet fever seemed a dangerous disease that was easy enough to diagnose but difficult to treat. The victim got a raging sore throat, a high fever, and a rash that spread over most of his body and gave the illness its name. But physicians and bacteriologists found that though they could suppress the rash, they could do little else for their patients. Researchers also found that patients who had one bout of scarlet fever might never have another, but if they got the same kind of sore...
When a baby is born prematurely, he is especially susceptible to a breathing difficulty that develops into hyaline membrane disease. The inner linings of the lungs get covered with a membrane that prevents the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide and kills the victim. So far, the most expert and concentrated medical efforts have proved virtually helpless against "H.M.D."; it was the cause of Patrick Bouvier Kennedy's death in 1963 when he was only 39 hours and 12 minutes...
...barbers were Harvard's defensive line and the victim was Archie Roberts, Columbia's all-Ivy Quarterback and Heisman Trophy candidate. Roberts had the worst day of his career as his team lost to Harvard 3-0 on Maury Dullea's last minute field goal...
Sadder still, The Visit suffers from heroic miscasting. As the implacable billionairess and her victim, Ingrid Bergman and Anthony Quinn work hard and seriously but to little purpose...
Despite an occasional stab of wit, Bergman's portrait of the artist as the victim of his fickle followers and corrupt critics, if it is funny at all, is heavy, testy humor. Teeth clenched, he wields the apparatus of slapstick boldly, but draws neither laughs nor blood because his northern variations on 8½ do not lend themselves to pie-in-the-face comedy. Even the most accomplished cinema stylist can scarcely hope, perhaps, to be the Fellini of the frost belt and a Scandinavian Sennett at the same time...