Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Motoring back to Moscow, Schwirkmann complained of fatigue and piercing pains in his left leg. In the capital, a U.S. embassy doctor called on to treat Schwirkmann diagnosed severe acid burns and recommended that the victim be rushed to West Germany for hospital care. But the Intourist travel bureau reported falsely that all flights were booked up, and it took two days to fly Schwirkmann out to Bonn, where it was discovered that he had been sprayed with a liquid form of mustard gas. Last week he was in serious condition but recovering...
...matrons meet aboard a luxury liner, and flashbacks recall their relationship in Auschwitz concentration camp, one as a strong-willed prisoner, the other as a vindictive German guard. There, in an unexpected reversal of the usual atrocity tale, the guard is revealed to be not the master but the victim of the evil power she owns. Polish Director Andrzej Munk died in an auto accident in 1961 before the film was finished, but admiring associates fleshed it out with narration and eloquent still photographs to shape a classic, poignant memorial...
Bellow's early novel, The Victim, had the tension of tragedy: an eerie encounter between a Jew and an anti-Semite in which the Jew turns out to be as much persecutor as victim. This first succes d'estime was followed by the book that made Bellow a popular success as well: The Adventures of Augie March, a picaresque tale of a Jewish Huck Finn who bounces about the U.S. and Mexico sampling and quickly tiring of all manner of jobs, creeds and persons. But Augie sacrificed the dramatic tension of The Victim and rambled. Bellow...
...Summer School fell victim this summer to a popular hoax: the non-existent student. A group of Harvard graduate students, several holding junior positions on the Summer School administration, created a Princeton junior, Barton Durstine Osborne, and engineered his admission to the Summer School...
...onetime Yavapai County sheriff who served as one of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough-riders. Barry is fond of saying that Bucky was the first American to fall in the charge up San Juan Hill. But Prescott historians ruefully admit that Bucky actually died before the charge, the victim of a sniper's bullet while relieving himself at a slit-trench latrine...