Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heart: A New Pump to Save The Ordinary Attack Victim...
...wealthy Californian to lure his expatriate son Phillip away from Italy and Marge, a beautiful but suspect art student. Hating his sadistic charge and envious of his wealth, Tom murders him, disposes of his body and in a dangerous game of impersonation, seeks to substitute himself for his victim...
...bland and unassuming Northwesterners suddenly close ranks against the wild man from the East. His teaching career in ruins, saddled with Pauline Gilley and her two children, Levin departs-uncertain to the very end whether he is Pauline's savior or her victim...
...Malamud remains as expert as before in his persuasive alternations of farce and sadness, the tender Chekhovian qualities that have marked all his work. His hero, Levin, is a born victim of circumstance: if he holds a baby on his lap, it wets him; if he holds a class spellbound, it is only because his fly is open. He is a man with a rage for justice, and an inner compulsion to keep "on paying for being alive." But in all his straining leaps toward the highest goals, he is scarcely capable of getting his two left feet...
...foes of the disclaimer should not despair prematurely. Their cause fell victim to the fortunes of the Cold War and to the vagaries of a conservative Congress much given to bursts of patriotism. The Cold War and the Congress will change, and then Harvard must be ready to move. Meanwhile the University must hope that President Kennedy has not forgotten his courageous stand in the Senate against the disclaimer. Certainly there have been much more pressing issues before the President in these past months, and one understands his refusal to undertake another losing fight on what must seem a minor...