Word: victimizing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...sends it on its errand. Even in the intense heat, the loo's warm caresses are sensuous and pleasant. It brings up the prickly heat. It produces a numbness which makes the head nod and the eyes heavy with sleep. It brings on a stroke which takes its victim as gently as breeze bears a fluff of thistledown." -Khushwant Singh, Train to Pakistan...
...basic difficulty in forging a nationalist spirit: for the ordinary African, a man's overriding loyalties are to his family and his tribe. By compelling Mau Mau members to violate not only Christian ethics but every tribal taboo as well, says Corfield, Mau Mau leaders deliberately reduced their victims to a state where a man who took the Mau Mau oath was cut off "from all hope, outside Mau Mau, in this world or the next." To achieve this, the Mau Mau leadership forced its recruits, voluntary or involuntary, to seal their oaths by digging up corpses and eating...
...rebirth of Manichaeism can be seen in the theater. Modern tragedy attaches "a very dubious quality of worthlessness, threat, evil, absurdity, to the whole world of situation and existence . . . How often in our generation have we seen the tragic protagonist who is cursed by the necessity of walking, victim and innocent, through an insane world. We need only recall such plays as Sherwood's Idiot's Delight, Paul Green's Johnny Johnston, or Anderson's Key Largo and Winterset, while Sartre gave a definitive formulation, in theory and on the stage, to the principle...
Every morning, the big yellow school bus picks up Susanne Slay, 8, at her home in suburban Crestwood near St. Louis. The bright second-grader studies hard, plays hard, tackles one hour of homework each night. Why is this surprising? The daughter of a sales engineer, Susanne is a victim of cerebral palsy, wears heavy braces on both legs...
Died. Harvey Samuel Firestone III, 30, an heir and only son of Board Chairman Harvey S. Firestone Jr. of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; of a fall (ruled suicide by a Cuban judge ) from the 20th floor of the Havana Hilton Hotel. A spastic cerebral palsy victim, Firestone graduated from law school last year, had planned to practice in St. Petersburg, where he and his wife and daughter made their home...