Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stroke of apoplexy or a fit of angina pectoris is horrible to see, infinitely more horrible to pass through. The victim counts himself as captured by Death, thenceforth a tolerated thrall. A docility comes upon choleric, domineering men; an apathetic quietude rules their minds and bodies. They must be quiet, cease all activities, else they burst their heart or a blood vessel...
...accident had occurred within a stone's throw of the editorial rooms of the News; a camera man had merely to dash down stairs and run a block to take the offensive photograph. In this example of horrifying journalism there was the smell of an excuse, for the victim had not been killed-merely knocked down, internally injured, and fractured in the skull. There was life in the corpselike shape-all that was earthly of one John Flake...
...expected to write something arresting, witty, facetious, and who would fain comply with the editors' demand. It certainly is neither witty, nor facetious, nor arresting. However pressed for material the editors may have been it was not kind to publish this effort of a perhaps too compliant victim...
...stomach an elbow (he might have added a head), but never a man. Man is this metamorphosed into a thing, into many things . . . . In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking...
...value of each human life. So there are those who doubt the ultimate truth of this verdict. The courts of law at best deal rather inadequately with those criminals who are obviously sane. But when such a case as this boy's who has always been the wandering, misunderstanding victim of a cerebral insufficiency comes before the bar of justice, then the limitations of human law stand fully revealed...