Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME, in its review of the movie Victim [Feb. 23] is correct in saying that "homosexuality is a serious neurosis that attacks the biological basis of life itself." I would dispute, however, the parenthetical assertion that the neurosis is "often curable." A left-handed person who learns to use his right hand is ambidextrous, not righthanded...
...commend you for presenting reports on Victim. It is one thing to sympathize with the tragic problem homosexuality poses; it is quite another to be faced with the arrogance that often characterizes it in our society...
Congratulations to the critic of Victim, who placed the reason for its immorality where it belonged. The public is alerted to fight the diseases that kill individuals, but asked to overlook and even condone an aberration that can rot a whole segment of our society. This is hardly entertainment...
...other Nazi victim was Carmelite Father Titus Brandsma, a Dutch-born journalist famed for his prewar anti-German writings who was captured by Nazi troops after The Netherlands surrendered in 1940. Brandsma refused to retract his anti-Nazi views, died "protecting Christianity against National Socialism" in a Dachau gas chamber...
...Victim. An entertaining but tendentious thriller that illustrates a shocking statistic: in nine out of ten cases of blackmail in Britain, the victim is a homosexual. Not for the kiddies...