Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Roddy McDowall plays a blackmailer in "The Fatal Mistake." His victim, Arthur Hill, raises reptiles; desperation drives him and his pets to strike. Repeat...
...year-old Negro burglary suspect as the youth ran from him. The patrolman claimed that the youth was about to get away when he pulled the trigger at a distance of 25 ft. Negroes who were standing near by said it was a much closer shot; indisputably, the victim was shot in the back. With that, the mobs began gathering. Arsonists set fires in stores, a lumberyard, half a dozen vacant houses. After rioters broke into a gun store on Cass Street, firemen found slugs snapping around them; a white couple, attracted by the flames, were dragged out of their...
...days, the witnesses described acts of violence committed by the defendants, who faced maximum one-year federal sentences and $1,000 fines for violating the victims' civil rights. James Conley, 17, testified that Duke Reynolds had cried, "Nigger, move," that he had moved, and that Reynolds then clubbed him with a stick. Felix Freelon, father of two Negro schoolchildren, said that William Bryant Flanagan had hit him with a blackjack. According to Charles Alexander, 17, Justice of the Peace James R. Ayers had threatened him with a pistol. And Emerald Cunningham, 11, a polio victim who could...
...superficially democratic decision-making structure at Radcliffe had failed. With which the disagreement escalated into name-calling testifies to some basic problem at the college. Probably the strike could have been averted and Radcliffe spared a week of embarrassing publicity; but Mrs. Bunting, it is clear, was the victim of her own bad public relations sense and the inoperable, attenuated administrative machinery in Fay House...
Thus Culture Critic Lewis Mumford (The City in History, The Highway and the City) decides that present ideas of man's inevitable dependence on science and technology are nonsense. Modern man, he says, is a victim of a "radical misinterpretation" of human development. Furthermore, the machine will either turn him into a collectivized, automatic non-person or blow him back to the jungle. The Myth of the Machine is hybrid literature-part history, part anthropology, part poetry. It is a violent, splenetic attack on much that has happened in civilization for the past several millennia, and it occasionally approaches...