Word: scapegoat
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...prosecution quoted the defendant as saying: "I did it all for Jannie." Kuntze volunteered that he had "contemplated matrimony" with Miss Suen, but maintained that the pleasure of her company was justified by her role as interpreter and "unofficial hostess." The defense intimated that Kuntze was being made a scapegoat by a "long arm in a civilian sleeve"-presumably the State Department-for the massive diversion of U.S. supplies into Saigon's black market...
Dirksen knew perfectly well, of course, that a solid score of those Democrats are Southern segregationists, hence that no civil rights bill stands a chance without G.O.P. support. All the same, Majority Leader Mansfield, for one, refused to make Dirksen the scapegoat. He reasoned that support for the bill had been eroded by the "rioting, marches, shootings and inflammatory statements which have characterized this simmering summer." He indicted, in particular, the evangelists of black power, "those who, in the name of racial equality or perhaps more accurately in the name of a new racial superiority, have not advocated further civil...
...there." Cottle denied the charge, saying that in his experience he knew of no real "casualties." Most of the people who are attacked, he continued, learn something fundamental about themselves, a few even change substantially over the year. Most sections, Cottle said, confront the hostility inflicted on the class scapegoat, and try to analyze its origins...
...observers behind the mirror when the discussion becomes too personal. Another brake on the tendency towards hostility is the rivalry among members for group leadership. Often when one leader-candidate is attacking a vulnerable member of the flock, another leader-candidate will come to the rescue of the scapegoat saying: "Now let's examine just why you feel the need to attack...
...Russia. He aims to pose the universal question of innocent man put to nothing by guilty authority. His hero is a Jew whose complaint against Gentiles is not that they are not Jews but that they are not Christians. He is called Yakov Bok (a name that suggests scapegoat), a Russian who is a stranger to Russia, who makes himself a stranger to his own Jewish tradition, and who is finally a stranger to everyone but the reader...