Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asked that no flowers be sent, there was a wreath of two hundred roses from, among others, Playwrights John Osborne and Arnold Wesker, Critic Kenneth Tynan, Novelists Angus Wilson and Alan Sillitoe, Jazzman Acker Bilk (who later withdrew his name). With the flowers came a note: "To Stephen Ward, victim of British hypocrisy." Explained Tynan: "British society created him, used him, and ruthlessly destroyed him. The Establishment has closed its ranks around its body...
...innocent, worsened the already bad, toyed with people's lives for the fun of it, dallied with whores so grubby that even Christine Keeler "could not bear to look at them." To many he was "a central figure of evil." Ward, added the Guardian, was not a victim of hypocrisy, but a "victim of his own impulses, which led him into many squalid crimes, not all of them mentioned in the official charge sheet. There ought to be compassion for a doomed criminal, but no support for any myth about his being a 'martyr,' and nothing...
...poet just turned 30, whose work is of dubious literary merit, Yevgeny Yevtushenko has been the subject of an inordinate amount of publicity. And for a man with less than subtle political beliefs, he has been the victim of gross and continual misunderstanding...
...rescued. This kind of perversion is not generally the stuff of high tragedy, but Fowles has made it so. Clegg is the perfect embodiment of modern evil: dull, implacable, without compassion because he is always rationalizing his cruelty. The evil he does is all the more agonizing because his victim is so engagingly brimful of life; and Clegg is so heedless of individual life that before the novel ends he is already mulling over the choice of another victim...
...same bill is Victim, a British import revolving around homosexuality. Its point (a good one) is that England's sex laws, which make homosexuality a criminal offense, are ineffective, barbaric, cruel, and an inducement to blackmail. Dirk Bogarde, as a happily married barrister with a homosexual past, turns in a fine performance. Victim drags in spots, but its point of view is admirable and is expressed without pious moralizing