Word: victimizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early this month ten major insurance firms began testing a new claim-settling method intended to cut red tape and avoid costly litigation. It is also hoped that the new system will save money for the companies. In seven counties around Chicago, they will immediately offer an injured accident victim up to $5,000 for medical expenses. If the victim, who must be a resident of the area, agrees not to sue for more, the participating companies will also provide up to another $7,500 in quick cash to cover lost wages, disfigurement, inconvenience, suffering and permanent disability. Alternatively...
...undisputed. Little Janice May was found bloodied and fatally beaten along the railroad tracks outside of Canton in November 1955. Miller was arrested two days later, kept incommunicado for 52 hours and "persuaded" to confess after police told him that one of his pubic hairs was found in the victim's vagina. Miller later recanted the confession, and the hair, which was not his, was never introduced as evidence...
...shorts as "heavily stained with blood" seemed to Justice Stewart a clear attempt to deceive the jurors. But the Illinois Bar committee insists that the prosecutors were merely following the expert view of a state chemist. His pretrial analysis, says the committee, indicated that there was blood of the victim's type on the shorts. The fact that the shorts were also paint-stained, the committee insists, was quite immaterial. The defense would still have had to explain away the blood...
Perhaps the pervasive influence of Freudianism has been felt most perversely in the genre of the thriller. Time was when characters were simply good or bad, threatening or threatened. But nowadays it is difficult to tell a real villain from a societal victim; too often the bewildered reader is caught between a hard shudder of fear and a soft sigh of compassion...
...Director William Wyler to substitute an innocent boy-meets-girl plot for the original lesbian relationship. When Billy Wilder made The Lost Weekend in 1945, he deleted all the book's references to the hero's homosexual self-doubts. The screen adaptation of Crossfire (1947) transformed the victim from a homosexual into...