Word: victimizer
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Americans should take some important lessons from the Fatimites. The attitude implicit in praying for strangers is altruism in its truest sense--caring for neighbors regardless of who or what they are. Every victim of war, famine or cruelty in this century is evidence of our continued refusal to be humane "unto the least of these...
...story yesterday about a man robbed at gunpoint at Plympton St. and Mass. Ave. early Wednesday said police indicated that the victim was not connected with the University. In fact, the man who was assaulted is a Harvard junior. He said yesterday that he was returning from a party at the Hasty Pudding Club when the incident occurred...
...find young and pretty Alex the embodiment of a victim of AIDS, alone and afraid. Her sister and her best friend Sam are too busy to come visit her. She finds comfort in the development of a friendship with Louise, her nurse. Louise, overworked and under pressure from the head doctor to take better care of the patients, is torn between helping Alex and sparing herself the hurt that inevitably comes of emotional investment in a dying patient...
...most part, however, the performance fails to engage. Because of a weakness in characterization the audience cannot cross the barrier between the worlds of the healthy and the dying. We do not learn who Alex is, where she comes from, or how she got AIDS. She remains the anonymous victim of a disease we don't understand--she borders on the stereotypical. The audience maintains the detachment they entered with, never feeling the terror of a person's approaching death...
After the victim reportedly identified Hodgman as her assailant, he was arrested by Harvard police...