Word: aggressor
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Kevin Cash provides a rambling account of Loeb's life, showing him as a Long Island socialite, a 1930s left-winger--he was a co-chairman of the Communist-dominated Committee to Boycott Aggressor Nations--an unsubtle adulterer, and a World War II draft evader. Placing particular emphasis on various peculiarities in Loeb's personal life--he was disowned and sued by his mother, he later disowned his own daughter, and he seems to have had Jewish ties despite his apparent anti-Semitism--Cash presents a portrait of a paranoid and unscrupulous gun-toting publisher. Loeb's well-known alliance...
...spring the tender trap, an acquisition-minded company usually advertises its willingness to buy stock in another firm at a price well above current market value though commonly below the stock's book value, or proportionate share of the company's net worth. The aggressor usually gives no warning; the management of a company under attack often learns about the tender offer only by reading the newspaper ads the same day stockholders...
...affect behavior. Such a group suddenly becomes an individual's only relationship with the rest of the world. Patty Hearst began as a victim [of kidnaping]. Any subsequent behavior has to be related to that fact. Prisoners under stress have a strong tendency to identify with the aggressor. The victim is dependent upon him for protection, food, for life itself. Identifying with the abductors may seem to be his or her only mechanism for survival. A helpless captive ends up fusing with the ideas of a group and doing things he or she as an individual would never have...
...what is to be their new relationship with the men of the world: both the men who are threatened by women's new sense of themselves, and the men who rejoice with them in their new identity, who despise as much as women do the role of exploiter and aggressor that has been visited upon them by the world in which they have been raised...
...civilized society where people are beaten into submission with a fear bludgeon that fear should be the most potent subject for cinematic entertainment Uaws is already overtaking the Godfather in box-office revenues). But its appeal transcends the fright of the victim. The audience can also identify with the aggressor. You don't see the first two attacks from the victim's perspective. You don't even see the shark. What you see is a naked pair of nubile legs fluttering several feet above, or two tiny feet kicking a rubber raft a short distance to the surface. You circle...