Word: victimizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...capture and summary execution last October by Bolivian soldiers, Cuban Guerrilla Ernesto (Che) Guevara became an instant martyr of the New Left. Fidel Castro's former second-in-command was the victim of his own botched insurgency, in which he failed to follow his own precepts for guerrilla warfare. Yet, in the seven months since his death, the Che legend has given rise to a cult of almost religious hero worship among radical intellectuals, workers and students across much of the Western world...
...masochistic extravaganza," and no one is more aware of this than Portnoy himself. In one of his many hysterical bursts of insight, he cries that he is "torn by desires that are repugnant to my conscience, and a conscience repugnant to my desires." He views himself as the victim in a grim Jewish joke. "Doctor, Doctor," he pleads, "please. I can't live any more in a world given all its meaning and dimension by some vulgar nightclub clown. By some-some black humorist! Because that's who the black humorists are-of course!-the Henny Young-mans...
What elevates the character of Alexander Portnoy far above the usual black-comedy victim is his insistence on knowing why he is in such pain, and his willingness and ability to examine every inflamed nerve ending. Portnoy's upbringing is not exclusively Jewish; it was a characteristic carryover from a time in the '20s and '30s when many immigrants and first-generation Americans saw their sons as Columbuses who would lead the family to security and status in the New World. The burden of these aspirations has left many of those Columbuses with painful kinks...
...pattern. The Bureaucrat is therefore most at home in a politically repressive system, in which his power is least questioned. The Intellectual, on the other hand, is primarily concerned with unfettered human expression in both his personal and political life, and hence always finds himself an unwilling victim of Bureaucratic power...
Died. Patrick P. Thienes, 83, onetime polio victim who became a champion hiker; of emphysema; in San Diego. Stricken with polio at six, Thienes began to hike at 14 to strengthen his legs and promote charities that cared for crippled children. In 1905 he covered 9,000 miles in the U.S. and Canada; in 1912 he set a record of 77 days for a coast-to-coast walk-and 50 years later broke it by walking from Los Angeles to New York in 54 days...