Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...KILDARE (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Dick Chamberlain finds he can patch up the body but not the mind of the teen-age victim of an abortion, so he ships her off to another program-The Eleventh Hour, where in the Nov. 27 episode Dr. Ralph Bellamy, as psychiatrist, will try his hand where Kildare's failed...
Death today is uncommon, occurring in isolation from generally one of two causes--accidents, or what we consider some kind of probability error, an unlucky break which leaves the victim with incurable cancer. Although no American expects to live forever, an element of fatalistic thinking which marked men's attitudes in the past has disappeared in America. The inevitability of death is underplayed; however, this may be part of a larger attitude toward disbelief in the inevitability of anything--we have geared ourselves to a rapidly changing, technological en-environment in which literally any-can happen...
...cancer also cut down resistance to infection. One common infection, Dr. Zubrod said, exerts its deadly effects because the child lacks a form of white blood cell known as the granulocyte. The condition used to be 100% fatal. But the Government-sponsored Anti-Leukemia Task Force found that adult victims of a different kind of leukemia, the chronic myelogenous form, have a great excess of granulocytes. Some have donated blood from which up to 100 billion granulocytes have been extracted and given to a single child victim of the acute disease. And in 60% of such cases, the treatment...
Bernard Malamud is a poet of the victim. Not the tragic or the hopeless victim, but the absurd victim. In his stories, fate is clearly placable, but his heroes never get the hang of it. They make fools of themselves instead, and, by robbing themselves of dignity, they become somehow more poignantly human...
...Yardling football team travels to Providence today with plans to make the Brown freshmen its fourth victim of the year. But injuries may cut into the depth that had enabled Coach Henry Lamar to keep a fresh eleven on the field at all times in the Crimson's first three outings...