Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decades ago it was fashionable to say, `to hold people responsible for their own behavior is to blame the victim.' That line just is not tenable, "saidLoury. He said the present welfare system had fostered behavior among the poor that perpetuates their role as an underclass...
...Morvan and Alfred Yaghobzadeh, have worked in Lebanon, and from some of their pictures one can grasp the moral implications of that tone. Their best images are their least polished: Morvan's scene of the aftermath of a car bomb, Yaghobzadeh's shot of two men bearing the victim of heavy shelling. For photographers working in the rubble of failed diplomacy, the most decent impulse is to use the camera as a branding iron -- the right pictures are blunt, scorching and indelible. That they can also look raw and haphazard is merely proof that style can echo the facts...
Finally Lowell threw his harpoon. He "said to Frost that I wanted to ask him how his reputation had become so exaggerated." Wilson does not report how Frost responded to that -- perhaps he just gasped -- but adds that the victim "looked like a clever old elephant." And after dinner, Mrs. Lowell "went upstairs to her room and burst into tears...
...decades ago it was fashionable to say: 'to hold people responsible for their own behavior is to blame the victim. "That line is just not tenable," said Loury. He said the present welfare system had fostered behavior among the poor that perpetuated their role as an underclass...
...case of Steven Bryant, who was found shot dead in his van in Los Angeles last May, might have slipped into oblivion were it not for the victim's reputation. Bryant, 33, was widely known as a longtime Hare Krishna who had turned against the sect in recent years. A bit of a crank, he bounced between West Virginia and California telling lawmen that the ever chanting, saffron- robed, pig-tailed, panhandling sect had turned corrupt...