Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sword. There is a woman dressed in white in front of a bird bath in which there is a severed human head. The meaning is that the archaic and the contemporary coexist in religious ritual, as do the conscious and the unconscious. Thus the bullfighter has slain a human victim. This is Koerner's way of saying that the bullfight is really a surrogate for a much more primitive sacrifice. The woman in white is both a modern Pittsburgh housewife and the old cannibal mother goddess of the ancient Mediterranean. The amazing thing about this painting, which Freud, Jung...
Auto Persuasion. There was little Buckley could do to rebut the testimony of the victim, Jack Watkins, and one of Buckley's fellow kidnapers who cooperated with the prosecution. Watkins had been picked out apparently because as an ex-con he seemed more open to coercion. This is how the prosecution told the story: Buckley and another man drove Watkins to a secluded road near Pascagoula, where they were met by three Klansmen in full hooded regalia. The gang urged Watkins to perjure himself and say that Bowers had been with him at the time of the bombing. When...
Iffy Chances. At issue is a conflict of interest between the company and the insured-both represented by the same lawyer, whose loyalties may be divided. Example: an accident victim sues for $20,000, but offers to settle for the policy limit of $10,000. In that case, the company may have good reason to refuse the offer. A jury might find for the policyholder, so that the company would need to pay nothing at all, or the decision might be for a lower award, also saving money for the company. But even if the insured loses and the jury...
...Simple Rule. In the California case, Security Insurance Co. of New Haven had refused to settle the claim of a tenant who had fallen through a faulty wooden staircase. The victim later developed a severe psychosis. The landlady, who had to pay up as a result of the insurance company's refusal, was forced to sell off her assets. She became indigent, eventually lost her health and attempted suicide. She sued Security, and the California Supreme Court finally upheld an award that covered the excess she had had to pay over the insurance limit, plus damages for the mental...
...Corp., who helped him to fend off admirals and generals. Similarly, the original Henry Ford resembles Napoleon Bonaparte because both became so surrounded by yes men that they were unaware of structural problems. Howard Hughes is not unlike Charles I of England in the sense that each was the victim of inevitable change from personal rule to group rule. Charles lost his head. Hughes sold his TWA stock for $546.5 million...