Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More complicated objections to limited legislation are now being raised by Catholic clerics, who regard Colorado-style laws as a blatant c^se of state-approved eugenics, never before established in U.S. law. To abort a rubella (German measles) victim, they say, is to rely on the purely statistical chance (average odds: 50-50) that her child may be defective-and to doom a possibly perfect baby in the process. To abort a fetus produced by rape or incest, they say, is to execute the most innocent partv in the trianele purely for the mother's social convenience. Even...
...knock, when it comes, transforms the room into a kind of torture chamber, in which the welts are raised by laughs. The put-on is a game in which the victim does not know either the rules or the stakes. The victim appears more helpless and the game more sinister in that two or three men usually tease, bully and mystify him. The Caretaker, for example, is an extended put-on: the old tramp Davies is led to believe by the two brothers, Mick...
...torment is often comic, but it is no laughing matter. In Pinter as in Kafka, punishment presupposes guilt, even if the crime is unspecified. The act of atonement is always arbitrary. In expiation, a Pinter hero-victim may lose his life, or his wife, or his mind. Kafka's religious overtones find no echo in Pinter. To him, the universe runs with the remorseless senselessness of a concentration camp...
Three weeks ago, Mike McCuan, a popular 18-year-old Medford, Ore., high school senior, took the same deadly trip. In each case, Freon-12, an odorless, colorless cryogenic gas, may have frozen the victim's larynx, cutting off oxygen to the lungs; in McCuan's death, it also caused massive accumulation of fluids in the lungs...
...sudden and complete reversal of the current pattern of escalation would probably meet far more vociferous opposition than the present policy. And the President could even fall victim to voters who take his Munich propaganda too seriously...