Word: victimizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. Well worth the time of Johnson fans, this full-length biography of the lexicographer was written four years before Boswell's, by a man who knew him considerably longer. The book became a victim of literary feuding, and this is the first printing since the 1780s...
...bottle of wine, despairing as he cries out for a Judas to betray him, collapsing in lip-quivering terror in the face of death. Producer Susskind surrounded Olivier with a supporting cast almost incredible in its depth. George C. Scott was superb as the police lieutenant who destroys his victim with cold intelligence and sympathetic understanding rather than simple brutality. As the slatternly mother of the priest's child, Julie Harris avoided the stylized ingenuousness that has almost become her trademark. Roddy McDowall was the subtle Judas in peon's tags who follows the priest through his furtive...
Chrysler Corp. built the reliable Redstone (47 successes in 52 firings; two astronaut launchings), but fell victim to Pentagon politics that cut back its contracts. Its highly skilled missile force has dwindled from...
Moravia has a ready, if somewhat specious, rationale for the erotic in his books. "It is the result of our highly industrialized mechanical living. Men have been victimized by their technology ... To them the sexual act is the only natural act left.'' It is hard to see Dino, the dispirited hero, as a victim of technology. He is simply bored and always has been. His trouble seems to be that he feels divorced from reality. What is just as bad is the shameful fact that Dino is rich, or at least his mother is. And Dino hates money...
...great theme is illustrated with an assembly of vivid episodes mounting in tension to the Transylvanian crescendo; the total effect is terrifying in the way an Aeschylus tragedy is terrifying. A representative scene is that in which a team of surgeons tries in vain to save the latest victim. "He has died of an unnatural loss of blood," says one over the corpse, and then after a chilling silence come the ominous words: "If only we knew what caused those two puncture marks just over the jugular vein...