Word: victimizer
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Friedrich Magirius, superintendent of Leipzig's Protestant churches, who notes that East Germany was "a typical dictatorship in which anybody who wanted to achieve something, to climb professionally, had to adapt." Hans Meyer, a law professor at the University of Frankfurt, argues that in East Germany the line between victim and criminal was perilously thin. "Very often," he says, "a person will have resisted in one respect but helped the regime in another...
...move. Brezhnev couldn't bear any mention of Khrushchev's name. People like him, who are soft and weak on the one hand and vain on the other, have a peculiar way of perceiving and "processing" their bad deeds. Having done something wrong, they project their guilt onto their victim, trying in this way to justify their actions to themselves and to the world. Father's name stood in the way of Brezhnev's attempt to solidify his own role in history...
...happily accepted the challenge. With Pakula, he spent a week at the Wayne County (Detroit) prosecutor's office observing a murder case. He quizzed lawyers at lunch and took files back to his hotel at night. At one conference a question arose -- about the relative heights of shooter and victim -- that stumped the real lawyers. "Harrison was the only one who knew the answer," recalls chief assistant prosecutor George Ward, "because he had studied the pictures of the two persons. He really did his homework...
...important for some people to stay to maintain an institutional memory or identity," he says. "Harvard represents an institution which has endured and which more-or-less works. [Up to about 30 years ago,] people rarely left their institution. Now there are no institutional loyalties, and Harvard is a victim of this...
...case against the father rests almost entirely on the daughter. Thus, much like a rape victim's, her character and credibility will be on trial when a jury determines what her father did on the afternoon of Sept. 22, 1969, when Susan, 8, did not return home from playing. Two months later, Susan's decomposed body was discovered near Crystal Springs Reservoir. Did little Eileen Franklin actually see her father murder Susan and repress it for two decades? Could her mind be playing tricks on her -- or worse, could she be getting revenge on the father who once doted...