Word: victimizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robert E Keeton and Jeffrey O'Connell, two activist law professors, of Harvard and the University of Illinois, have teamed up to research and do battle with the auto-insurance business, which in their well-documented opinion sells inadequate and inequitable protection to the accident victim (TIME Essay, Jan. 26). So far, they have won nothing but hostility and bitter opposition from most insurance companies. But their Basic Protection plan, drafted into a model bill, has been presented to legislatures in eight states...
...housekeeping together, squabble amiably, seek work, vacation at the seashore and, in various ways, find love. Presumably, such a book would have to be filled with novelistic bravado to lift it above the humdrum. But since Warren is a paraplegic, Arthur a near-spastic and Junie a hideously deformed victim of an acid attack, the atmosphere is already painfully tense. The challenge for the author is to keep everybody's emotions-his own, his protagonists' and the reader's-from getting out of control...
This moral terrain, though fascinating, is often overwrought in literature. And Davidson's low-key philosophic inquiry, conducted in a wonderfully conversational tone and decked out with the trappings of an international suspense tale, runs the risk of seeming schematic or frivolous. He produces a rich victim of Nazi terror who, it turns out, may not be dead after all. The story deals in breathless comings and goings across the Central Europe of today and yesterday-yesterday in this case being 1939, just before Hitler's "final solution" was set in motion. Davidson detours into the painfully recollected...
...past Boston University has been an easy victim for Harvard's varsity soccer team. But today's game with the Terriers should be different...
Even as the new Premier was sworn in, Salazar, the victim of a massive stroke, clung to life. But the 79-year-old dictator had been in a coma for ten days, and his doctors had informed President Americo Deus Rodrigues Tomás that he would never recover sufficiently to resume office. Faced with a serious drift in government affairs and rumors that the military might step in, Tomás finally called on Caetano to form a government...