Although the field originally focused on the varying degrees of victim blameworthiness, by the 1970s this preoccupation became overshadowed by studies intended to prevent victimization, to improve the way complainants are handled by the police and courts, and to speed recovery.
THIS preoccupation is amply illustrated by the models in the exhibition, not only in his early houses but notably in his museums, starting with the Museum of Decorative Arts in Frankfurt, Germany, where his main challenge was to build a large modern extension to a small 18th-century museum.
This preoccupation has perhaps been exacerbated by working on The Turn of the Screw: at the heart of the story are two cherubic children apparently haunted by some horror.
Measures to censor don't work in China and they haven't worked in the U.K. The legislature would serve citizens better by squashing this preoccupation with pornography and instead putting a real effort into educating kids — and possibly the adults in Utah — about what is healthy sexual behavior.
"I understand that there is a preoccupation by polls by some," the president said.
A sense of exhaustion, as much as of history, was in the air as the lawmakers gaped at the results, a weariness born of 11 months' daily preoccupation by the nation with the President's misbehavior, and its aftermath.
Scriptwriter Dustin Lance Black, who won an Oscar for his biopic of Harvey Milk, tries to humanise Hoover's unquenchable professional preoccupation by summoning up his reputed double life as a closet case and cross-dresser; the gaudy after-death rumour that was so joyously taken up by the liberal Left, for whom Hoover was such a bête noire.
We can learn about a country's preoccupations by reading its popular fiction.
His latest project combines his two childhood preoccupations by imagining a very different outcome to World War II one in which America bombed its allies in the Soviet Union as well as its foes in Japan, and went on to rule the world as its sole nuclear power.
