Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dislike labels but let it be said at least that he was in a way a victim of the noble white man's justice. He had the courage to war with what didn't seem quite justice to him. You might envy him just a little. I do. What the hell...
...thin and superficial continuity, to be sure, is often attempted in what are known as "rapid survey" courses, where innumerable slides appear in swift succession upon the screen, with equally swift comments by the instructor. At the end of such a course, the victim of this "speed-up" system is expected to "identify" a goodly number of slides, and will doubtless pass the rest of his life comfortably unaware of the distinction between recognition and understanding. In such fashion, as one college catalogue once stated, "the student learns to recognize the old masters upon sight." To be on speaking terms...
...Chamberlaine. On the dance floor a lone man with an umbrella on his arm picks out a girl with whom he would like to dance, hooks her partner's arm with the umbrella, and whirls away with the girl, leaving the umbrella on the arm of the victim. The dispossessed dancer then repeats the process. French couples enjoyed the Hitleresque fun of giving the man with the umbrella the runaround, leaving him embarrassed and puzzled...
Nachman is sacrificed to the OGPU, Author Singer has long ago sacrificed him as a plausible character. As the last third of the story turns into out & out melodrama, even anti-Communist readers are likely to feel that literature as well as Nachman has been the victim of a frame...
...murderer, he said, "is treated as the private property of the State, and no gaze of free inquiry may rest on his psyche." Only a psychiatrist, he said, can solve the "nuclear problem" of impulsive murder: why a murderer kills with slight provocation, and why he chooses a certain victim, often a complete stranger, at a given moment. He told of the case of the Manhattan upholsterer, John Fiorenza, who killed Mrs. Nancy Titterton in her Beekman Place apartment three years ago. Mrs. Titterton had called Fiorenza to repair a loveseat, had urged him to return it as quickly...