Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Joke. One Soviet official made light of Carter's human rights talk, jokingly threatening that "the Foreign Ministry in Moscow may start issuing statements in defense of Larry Flynt [the Hustler publisher; see THE PRESS] as a victim of repression and harassment." Trouble is, to most Americans direct repression is no joke. In the end, as usual among superpowers, each side will probably work in a hardheaded fashion to further its own basic interests. If both sides see advantages in a new arms agreement, the clashing rhetoric on human rights is not likely to stand in the way-provided...
...Fates finally caught up with Dave in his junior year, when he fell victim to a vicious case of tennis elbow. "It was so acute," says Dave, "That I couldn't even get out of a chair without pain...
...first symptom of frostbite is a tingling sensation in the extremities. The skin turns slightly red at first and then becomes pale grayish-yellow and numb. Pain subsides and sometimes blisters begin to appear. At the first signs, the victim should be brought inside and the affected parts warmed with tepid, not hot water. Snow should never be massaged on a frostbitten area. Second-and third-degree frostbites are treated like burns; sometimes victims are hospitalized. Thus it is only commonsensical to suit up for winter as if it were a mortal foe-which it can be (see box following...
...Blacks as Strong, Proud, Culturally Cohesive. The trend began with the Lyndon Johnson years and the rise of militant blacks who scorned the devastated-victim theory as unworthy and abject. The Moynihan report was rejected, if not disproved. Historian Herbert Gutman began work on the view of the black family as shrewd, strong, not nearly as weakened as it had seemed. The extended family had resources unsuspected by whites...
...evidence that backs it up, does not seem particularly far-fetched, nor does it seem in any degree racist. However, if Professor Wilson's views are indeed as absurd as Ms. Rosenthal seems to think, it would be more prudent on her part to allow his hypotheses to fall victim to the truly scientific method of test by experiment, rather than the politically-motivated haranguing of a nutritionist whose command of the topic is perhaps open to some doubt. Stephen Schumacher '80 James Armstrong...