Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bought a house in uptown Manhattan and blithely decided to fill it with antiques. Prices in the antique shops turned out to be unthinkable for them, so the Katzanders started going to auctions. The more they went, the more convinced they became that the buyer is often a helpless victim of chance simply because he does not know what is going...
...point of The Alchemist must be made largely through its pacing. The moral plague which settles over Lovewit's London house must come with lightning speed as Subtle and Face deceive victim after victim; and at the end of the play the victims must converge on the house in a thunder clap of righteous indignation. The audience should be allowed to catch its breath only in the final moments, when Face miraculously stands triumphant after his final deceit. If Mirsky speeds the action and limits the number of actors who lasciviously roll their tongues around their lips and ostentatiously finger...
...American way of life. He has borne cheerfully the burden of double taxation in order to educate his children according to the just dictates of his conscience. It is indeed unfortunate in these times of seeming progress that the conscientious American Catholic is to be systematically made the victim of the universal evils of injustice, intolerance and discrimination. The larger and more important constitutional issue today is the protection of the rights and dignity of the individual citizen, and not the belaboring of the almost nonexistent, specious church-state question...
...Baptist missionary in China. During World War II he joined a U.S. Army intelligence unit in China, served with the rank of captain. Ten days after the Japanese surrender in 1945, he was killed by a band of Chinese Communist guerrillas. Birch Society members regard him as the first victim of the cold war. Birch's parents, who live in retirement in Georgia, are honorary life members of the society. Last week his mother said that they were "heartily in accord with the purpose and the procedure of the John Birch Society...
...parents, on the siblings, on the cold war, on the pressures toward conformity, on being unloved and unwanted. But don't blame it on me, the very center around which the whole universe revolves." Topsy-turvily, compassion is extended to the evildoer rather than to his victims. Thus the recent U.S. scene has offered the spectacle of "The Martyr as Manly Rapist" (Caryl Chessman), "The Martyr as High-Minded Gigolo" (Chance Wayne in Sweet Bird of Youth), and "The Martyr as Put-Upon Professor" (Charles Van Doren, self-proclaimed victim of the TV quiz riggings). The ultimate in 20th...