Word: victimization
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...varsity win over the Elis, traditionally the nicest of things, is a stronger bet and even a probability if the varsity plays the kind of lacrosse it is capable of playing. Yale looked good early in the season, but recent losses to Cornell (a varsity victim) and Syracuse give Coach Bruce Munro's squad a definite edge in tomorrow's contest...
...Indirect Victim. Under this arrangement, the ballot of a voter in a little piney-woods county was a lot weightier than the ballot of a voter in a large city...
Last week, all of a sudden, Georgia's county unit system was dead. It was an indirect victim of the Supreme Court's recent decision bringing the apportionment of seats in state legislatures under review by federal courts (TiME, April...
Receptive & Expressive. Beyond a stroke victim's physical difficulties there is another more variable, less understood, and-until recently-more neglected problem: language disability. The technical name, aphasia, covers far more than its literal meaning, "loss of speech." Usually, neither innate intelligence nor accumulated knowledge is destroyed, but access to each is cut off from the patient by a breakdown in his communications system. This breakdown may damage the receptive (reading and listening) functions, or the expressive (speaking, gesturing, writing), or both, in infinitely various combinations...
Mimicry, being comedy's sharp elbow in the ribs, usually depends on the mimic's being at a safe distance from his subject -or victim; the more dignified and honored the subject, the greater the advisable distance. But an appealing showman named Elliott Reid flew down to Washington a fortnight ago with nothing less in mind than mimicking President Kennedy for the pleasure of the capital's press corps, most of the Cabinet officers, and the President himself. The result: Kennedy was convulsed, and Good Trouper Reid was once again "discovered...