Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, in the Federal High Court in Karlsruhe, the airgun killer was on trial, and for three days he quietly explained the circumstances behind his cold-blooded crime. Oddly enough, the friends and relatives of Stashinsky's victims who crowded the courtroom felt less hate than pity for the man in the dock. His was a tale of blackmail, grief, fear and love that moved the lawyer representing the widow of one victim to define the crime as manslaughter, not murder. Added an attorney for the other widow: Stashinsky was only "a poor devil...
...victim here," he said. "No matter what the country has done to me, it has done something much worse to itself. By continuing to avoid the reality of the black man, it has lost its grip on reality altogether...
...Death of the Adversary, by Hans Keilson. Hate has never been so exhaustively and eloquently explored as in this novel about a dictator and his victim...
...patient was Linda Epping, 8, a victim of a congenital cancer of the left eye. Linda entered a Los Angeles hospital and was awaiting removal of the eye-an operation that sometimes saves a life and almost invariably prolongs it. But Chiropractor Marvin Phillips, 35, persuaded Linda's immigrant German parents that he could cure the child's cancer without an operation. He wanted $500, plus the cost of medicines (which came to $239 for vitamins, food supplements and a solution of iodine and water). Linda's parents paid. Linda died...
...Victim of the same sympathetic fallacy is Empire (NBC), the story of a great King, as in Texas' huge King ranch. Since it is a kidnaped stepson of Giant, it might have been written by somebody called Billie Sol Ferber, who proves that the West ain't what it was. One ranch hand punches another, and the punched man looks up and says feelingly: "I'm sorry for all your suffering...