Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major on-the-scene victim of the N.A.A.C.P.'s broad-gauged anger was none other than Chicago's Democratic Mayor Richard Daley, who has made a successful political career out of collecting Negro votes. Accompanied by Illinois' Democratic Governor Otto Kerner, Daley spoke to the convention, admitted that the Chicago civil rights situation is not perfect, but certainly is "as good as any." When Daley insisted that "there are no ghettos in Chicago," there were murmurs of disbelief in the meeting hall...
...Juan Peron was in power, the Cardosos were notorious for winning "confessions" from the regime's prisoners. Their prize persuader was the picana electrica, an "electric needle" that delivered a 12,000-volt jolt. Applied to the lips, soles of the feet or genitals, the picana made the victim convulse with shrieking pain, while leaving no marks. "With the picana" Juan Cardoso once boasted, "you can extract in one session confessions that would have taken four days of sissified questioning...
...Sade are perhaps best indicated by the opinion of Simone de Beauvoir: "Sade drained to the dregs the moment of selfishness, injustice and misery. He chose cruelty rather than indifference. This is probably why he finds so many echoes today, when the individual knows that he is more the victim of men's good consciences than of their wickedness...
...20th century has acquired title to the political inquisition, as it has to the internal-combustion engine, not by invention but by refinement. The modern subtlety is the obscene symbiosis in which interrogator and victim cooperate willingly in an elaborate pretense of the victim's guilt. And the basic document of this condition is the long dialogue between Rubashov and Gletkin in Koestler's Darkness at Noon...
What is horrifying about the Koestler novel is that the reader becomes convinced that in Rubashov's place he himself would become a complying victim. Anyone in the 20th century can become a victim; that needs no further proof. But a further evil is possible, Irish Writer Victor Price argues in this thoughtful first novel. What Price suggests is that anyone, bound up in the tangled complicities of corrupting power, may become an interrogator. Price's hero is Hugh Barbour, a classicist who escapes from his academic hide-hole into a job interrogating Greek prisoners for the British...