Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Love is not a stimulating emotion," proclaimed Dr. Morris Fishbein, 73, retired editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association. "It's a weakening one. The victim sweats, his blood vessels dilate, he takes on a pale and sickly look." For every Leander ready to swim the Hellespont, "the record is filled with stories of coronaries and strokes brought on by exertion caused by too much emotion...
...action is tauntingly simple. A pleasant fellow named Peter is sitting on a bench in Central Park one Sunday afternoon when up comes an unpleasant youth named Jerry. "I've been to the zoo," the newcomer offers, then insinuates himself upon the helpless victim in an effort to establish genuine communication. He ends with a long story about his unsuccessful attempt to make friends with a dog by half killing it. Seeing that his efforts to reach Peter are also a failure, Jerry offers himself as a sacrificial dog, impaling himself on a knife he has dared the older...
...Defenders (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Hopefully, a high-octane refinement of a situation like the Finch-Tregoff trial: a man and his mistress face a murder rap, and the victim, of course, is his wife...
...their work was playing in street parades for funerals, and no one in New Orleans could line up funeral work like John Casimir. Over the years, his friends said, Casimir learned the knack of arriving at a sickbed just after the priest and just before the hearse. If the victim looked sick enough, Casimir would give him a quarter. "Go buy yourself some ice cream," he would say cheerily, tipping his hat to the dying man's family. Everyone knew that a quarter from Casimir had the chill of the grave on it. At funerals, the band would play...
There were many in Wall Street who thought that Bidwell had been made a victim. The charges that the Government brought against Bidwell last February accused him and his wife of two major offenses: 1) deliberate failure to report $15,500 in capital gains from stock transactions in 1956; 2) overstating their business and charity deductions in 1956 and 1957 by $78,000. Well before his indictment, Bidwell had negotiated a settlement with the Internal Revenue Service under which he increased his 1956 and 1957 tax payments from $55,000 to $98,000. But the Government chose to prosecute...