Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Homans said that the sheriff is a "victim of misinformation about Mann's prison activities...
...sportswriters and owners. Bouton, on the other hand, tells of Elston Howard, the beloved Yankee catcher, who was forced to undergo humiliation after humiliation of the part of his teammates. Elston Howard believed what the owners told him, thought that he was not so much the victim of racism as he was the victim of his own personality. So Howard started Tomming, and immediately became an example to other black ballplayers of what a "good nigger" was like...
...Theatre Centre troupe has, I repeat, no new method of acting or stage presentation and certainly no new gloss on Ionesco. What it does have is a remarkable optimism which can be felt if not communicated. "Man can and should be a determiner of life rather than a victim," the program notes blazon. Thus, in the Old West Church in Boston, in the midst of some harrowing Urban Renewal skyscrapers, a theatrical group has thrown off the pessimist syndrome which Daniel Moynihan recently tabbed "mediocre." Unfortunately, at this stage in its development, the HTC lacks the artistic expertise to complement...
...lost Frankie this summer when he moved to Florida. Frankie was my age, and his interests were hitchhiking and girls' feelings toward him. He was always the victim of pranks. Teenage girls would give him phone numbers which they said were theirs but which actually were those of their worst enemies. Another prank involved the hospital. Frankie was an expert on current events in the maternity ward, but he was ignorant about the new wing. He was fascinated when some kid told him the wing folded up into the building at night...
...conservative, Swiss bankers have been increasingly irked by the aggressive marketing methods of U.S. banks that have flocked to their country and heavily tapped the local money market. Thus Swiss moneymen reacted with scarcely concealed delight when the Basel subsidiary of the United California Bank suspended operations, a victim of the costliest banking scandal in Swiss history. The losses of the U.S. affiliate so far have been estimated at $40 million. But as state-appointed auditors worked to unravel the tangled affair last week, there was every possibility that the deficit could grow even larger...