Word: victimizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mobsters were overheard deploring the 1962 hand-grenade slaying of "Cadillac Charlie" Cavallaro in Youngstown, Ohio, because the blast also killed the victim's eleven-year...
...pain. Half the medical textbooks say little about it, except for extreme and uncommon forms, and doctors learn correspondingly little about it in medical school. The great British physiologist Sir Charles Sherrington described pain as "the psychical adjunct of an imperative protective reflex." More simply, pain is what the victim perceives in his mind after he has touched a hot stove-and reflexively pulled back his hand to guard against further burn damage...
Inflation, which has smashed wage guidelines, sent interest rates to record levels and jacked up a host of indexes, has claimed another victim. Because the farm price index has reached a 17-year high, the retail price of food, which is what irritates people most about inflation, will continue upward. Last week the Agriculture Department reported that prices received by farmers rose 4% during the month ending May 15, and were 8% higher than a year ago. The meat index rose 9% during the month. Prices received by farmers for vegetables jumped 25%, while the dairy product index exceeded that...
...need for originality is much prized by Cortazar. He once cast Theseus as a dullwitted, conventional, sword-swinging Victor Mature hero pitted against the Minotaur-seen as a poet-victim being set upon for his incendiary ideas. In a chapter of Cronopios and Famas, he offers Hamlet as a man obsessed with finding a five-leaf clover-a quest worthy of his proud and exceptional nature...
...Armed with few clues and a feeling that he is embarked on a useless yet necessary quest, the detective proceeds to make a grand detour of the local underworld scene. What started out as a whodunit winds up as a "Who-am-I?" Separated from his home, and a victim of a sense of alienation to boot, the detective begins to identify with the missing husband and yearn for his own wife, to the point of self-return: "No good hunter pursues his quarry too far," he rationalizes. "Rather he puts himself in his quarry's place...