Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...each known incident, an individual meeting Wilder's physical description approaches an attractive young female, identifies himself as a professional photographer and offers the woman a photo session for usage in nationwide magazines. If any resistance or refusal is given, he forcibly abducts the victim...
...shared with notorious killers. Few guests could be counted on as regulars at Giancana's table. Some periodically vanished into penitentiaries. Others were removed by hired guns. Yet Giancana never failed to bring his family to the wake of a fellow mobster, even when the deceased had fallen victim to one of his own enforcers...
Though such glimpses into Mafia domestic life are rare, they appear eerily familiar. Indeed, the Mafia princess bears a family resemblance to another victim of unbounded evil, the princess of the Kremlin. In Svetlana Alliluyeva's 1967 memoir Twenty Letters to a Friend, Stalin's daughter tells similar tales of disappearing family friends, and her father often made a show of mourning those he had ordered killed. Svetlana too was forbidden to pursue her chosen career, in this case, literary scholarship, and was denied her first lover, a Jew. Though both daughters ultimately escaped from their palatial prisons...
...performance as Willy is nothing short of a revelation. He has stripped away all the doomy portents that have encrusted the character over the years and brought him down to fighting weight, a scrappy, snappy little bantam, whom the audience may, if it wishes, choose to see as a victim, but who almost never sees himself that way. Not long ago, Arthur Miller said that "Willy is foolish and even ridiculous sometimes. He tells the most transparent lies, exaggerates mercilessly, and so on. But I want you to see that the impulses behind him are not foolish...
Sigmund Diamond's interest in university FBI relations is more than an academic pursuit. Diamond himself was a victim of McCarthy lever at Harvard, at the hands of no less than McGeorge Bundy--who was then dean of the Faculty and who later went on to become national security advisor under President John F. Kennedy...