Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worried about the potential damage in a rape case if TV is allowed in the court. The victim, who must return to society, becomes a recognizable public figure. It is now very difficult to bring charges for rape. With cameras in the room it will be close to impossible...
...ordered them into the truck. That night the bodies of four of the workers, clad only in underpants, were dumped at the cemetery's gate; on the chest of one of them were burned the initials of a right-wing death squad. The whereabouts of the fifth victim remains unknown...
...eight days the discussions and re-enactments continued, never acrimonious but always intense. The jurors applied no pressure on each other. On the ground floor, a hundred or so journalists and half as many dedicated trial followers waited. The celebrity of the victim and the social standing of the accused, their intriguing affair, and the misogynist overtones that many women found in Tarnower's treatment of Harris, all combined to make the trial a press spectacular, a debate over man's inhumanity to woman. Said one courtroom regular, a sharp-eyed lady of about 60: "I pray...
Until I read your article, I had assumed that Brooke Shields [Feb. 9] was a victim of her mother's greed. Since she is surviving with such poise, and is enjoying herself as well, more power...
Laqueur dislikes the very word Holocaust: holokaustein means to bring a burnt offering, and "it was not the intention of the Nazis to make a sacrifice of this kind, and the position of the Jews was not that of a ritual victim." Still, the term has entered the world's vocabulary (der Holocaust has been naturalized in German), and survivors themselves employ it. The Holocaust Library, distributed by Schocken Books, for instance, is a nonprofit publishing enterprise created and managed by refugees. Most of the titles belong to the literature of testimony-The Holocaust Kingdom by Alexander Donat...