Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years, depicts a Holmes who still has all of his marvellously keen powers of perception but who has lost his grasp on reality. The detective master-mind who embodies the power of rationality, who penetrates the most obscure and baffling mysteries and restores them to intelligibility, has become a victim of his own delusions...
...critical essays analyzes the book and its author (both as Charles Dodgson, Oxford math teacher, and under his pen name, Lewis Carroll). The range of subjects and types of criticism reflects an alarming degree of adult interest in Carrolliana. If there is one book that should not fall victim to Lit Crit, it's Alice...
...August, Henderson and his colleagues thought that they had tracked down the last few pockets of the disease in isolated areas of Ethiopia. Then just as they were ready to announce the end of smallpox, they learned of several new cases among nomads in neighboring Somalia. The most recent victim is a 20-year-old woman named Maryam Ali Gureh, who is now recovering under the watchful eye of local WHO officials. If she can be kept from having any contact with unvaccinated people, she may go down in history as the world's last smallpox case...
Because of this distinctive characteristic of smallpox, WHO officials realized at the start of their ambitious program in 1967 that they had to locate every victim, keep all of them totally isolated during the infectious period and inoculate as many people as possible in the vicinity. These were formidable goals, and many health authorities were openly skeptical that they could be achieved during WHO'S self-imposed timetable of only ten years. In some regions local tribesmen were suspicious of visiting WHO workers; in Ethiopia, two health workers were shot and killed. Some backward people refused to reveal that...
Shaking Chills. In fact, the investigators learned that the search itself may entail some risks. While examining tissue from a victim last month, Dr. Sheila Moriber Katz, a pathologist at Philadelphia's Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, became seriously ill with symptoms that looked strikingly like those of Legionnaires' Disease: muscle pain, shaking chills and high fever. Katz's illness was clinically diagnosed as viral pneumonia, and she recovered in time to attend last week's meeting. But try as they might, doctors have been unable to identify the virus that felled...