Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will." Says Kuchel of himself: "I try to deal with my colleagues fairly. I try to live up to my word. I don't try parliamentary tricks." One exception, a Democrat with little affection for Kuchel, is Ohio's conservative Frank Lausche, who was once a victim of Kuchel's occasionally earthy humor. Kuchel came onto the Senate floor one day while Lausche was earnestly orating, slipped up behind him, and hissed into his ear: "Baloney!" Lausche froze, choked, completely lost his train of thought...
Parisians recall many bloody heads across the years, especially the nine people killed in the crush when police broke up a 1962 peace rally. But the latest uproar began in April, when Cinemactor Jean-Paul (Breathless) Belmondo dared to protest that a cop was neglecting an accident victim while quizzing witnesses; Belmondo was knocked flat. During May, four prisoners detained for trifling offenses hanged themselves in their cells. There was no evidence to prove that the police were at fault, but no one could convince suspicious Frenchmen that the deaths were not caused by third-degree tactics. Paris has also...
...single achievement of this slight book is the girl's character. A victim who refuses to act like one, a survivor who survives because she does not try to justify life, a pitiable figure untainted by self-pity, Enrica has a kind of stoic charm. Not for export to the U.S., of course. The sociologists would ply her with group therapy. In a few weeks she would be blaming Dad for rejecting her, and tearfully reciting her laments to peer-group pals whose lives can be blighted by a back-seat rebuff on a blind date...
...little capacity for refining and broadening her faculties of appreciation. And he, on the other hand, can alter many of the organic and social rules that control his behavior. Nonetheless, the fly attains fulfilment--she achieves the "only fitting thing." Would we not condemn the fly as the victim of a perverse obsession if she never discharged her ovipositor, but instead fretted continuously about her existential plight? No doubt we would be forced to conclude that her life was absurd...
Harvard's undefeated track team ran wild against Brown on Saturday, breaking three University records and several Brown stadium marks. Lost in the rubble at Providence was a throughly shattered Bruin team, the victim of a 90-59 massacre...