Word: scapegoat
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Though Khrushchev was plainly out to make Evtushenko the scapegoat, the campaign against the poet was only part of a new. systematic attempt to clamp strict party controls on the theater, music, art, book publishing, industrial design, and every other field in which young Communists might be tempted to voice independent thoughts. It was once more that "strange time." as Evtushenko wrote in 1960. "when common integrity could be called courage...
...group is so harmonious that teaching is a pleasure. One teacher calls it "an inspiration to teach in a school that meets each child's needs without frustrating him." The few complaints are mostly from parents whose kids seem to be moving slowly. "The plan makes a wonderful scapegoat if the school can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear," says Principal Miriam Burton...
...action last October? "I have seen charges of all kinds," said Kennedy. "One day a distinguished Republican charges that it is all the CIA's fault, and the next day it is the Defense Department's fault, and the next day the CIA is being made a scapegoat by another distinguished leader. So that we could not possibly answer these charges, which come so fast and furiously." Kennedy was most evasive when asked if four Alabama airmen killed during the Bay of Pigs invasion had been employees of the Central Intelligence Agency or any other department...
Naturally, Khrushchev takes none of the blame for the fiasco. Three years ago he found a scapegoat in Kazakhstan Party Boss Nikolai Belyaev, fired him for his "errors." Last week Belyaev's successor, Dinmukhamed Kunaev, was similarly bounced-for "lapses" in his work. For good measure, Moscow also purged the former Premier of the territory from the local party's Central Committee...
...Galbraith's loyalty and contained no suggestion of homosexuality, they nevertheless showed him as naive, overly trusting and unduly chummy with his lowly underling. Macmillan accepted his resignation, provoking anguished protests of "McCarthyism" and "guilt by association." Still, while Galbraith may or may not have been made a scapegoat, the fact remains that the British security system appears to be worthy of Colonel Barmitage...