Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...significant as that brought about by repressions in the Soviet bloc: "The sufferings of freedom also had to be considered. Otherwise we would be conceding a higher standard to totalitarianism, saying that only oppression could keep us honest." And Uncle Benn, a "sex-abused man," is not the only victim of contemporary life that Kenneth has in mind. "All this may appear to be about me," he disclaims at one point about his narrative, but much of it is. Kenneth too has a grievance. The woman with whom he had a daughter refused to marry him and moved to Seattle...
...crowding also claimed an indirect victim as the housing office decided that incoming transfer students would no longer be guaranteed on-campus housing. In the past, transfers had been assured they could sample house life by senior year...
...than two days at a time except sometimes during Reading Period. (Occasionally I hear from a Black student the following: "I don't think about being Black" or "Being Black is not an issue in my life." These statements, which immediately brand the speaker as either a liar or victim of autism, can be isolated as a corollary to the white student's "I don't think of you as Black"--a phrase whose originator must have thought conferred the equivalent of knighthood...
...vast majority of Germans seek reconciliation with the victim nations. They are also inclined to forget the past and tend to resent the unceasing recollection of it; it is against these tendencies that von Weizsacker made this speech," says Erich Goldhagen, who teaches a course on the Holocaust...
...tung plunged China into the Cultural Revolution, a decade of madness during which millions were tortured or killed on ideological grounds. One victim was Nien Cheng, a diminutive but incredibly determined woman. In Life and Death in Shanghai, excerpted in this issue, she tells of her imprisonment, torture and ultimate triumph. See SPECIAL SECTION...