Word: scapegoat
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...Decline of Pleasure (Simon & Schuster, $5), Kerr blames not the usual scapegoat, the Puritans, but the British Utilitarian philosophers of the last century, who declared: "Value depends entirely on utility." As a practical people. Americans readily accepted this practical advice. Americans, he argues, feel that all their acts must serve some useful purpose, and when they do not, they feel guilty. Thus Americans work harder at their leisure than at their jobs, play bridge or tinker with their homes as intently as if the boss were watching. "It is in the privacy of our passing from kitchen to bedroom . . . that...
...that he had not read the books that he denounced as bad reading his troops.) He charged that he had "framed in a den of iniquity" was and the victim of a mysterious "real control apparatus" dedicated to a "no-win" war policy for the U.S. "I was a scapegoat of an unwritten policy of collaboration and collusion with the international Communist conspiracy . . ." Tower of Babel. Such talk puzzled the Senators. Just what, asked Alaska Democrat Bob Bartlett, did Walker mean by "real control apparatus." Replied Walker: "The real control apparatus" can be identified by its effects and what...
...socialist legality.'' The accusations suggested that on the basis of Barak's long tenure as boss of the secret police, he would be made the fall guy for "crimes"' committed under Novotny's leadership. After all, Czechoslovakian Communists have not had a real scapegoat since Rudolf Slansky was hanged...
...Central Intelligence Agency has been widely publicized since it served as a scapegoat for the Cuban Invasion. Last April, everybody in Washington was excusing himself on the grounds of blind gullibility, and vowing to clean up the mess which Allen Dulles had made over the years. Now, still calling for an Intelligence Agency that will be less self-willed and less inclined toward asserting foreign policy on behalf of the nation, the guiltless have approved a powerful, opinionated and unqualified man to lead...
...American businessman is a persecuted minority, discriminated against and penalized for his achievements," said Ayn Rand last night at the Ford Hall Forum. The controversial novelist maintained that the American businessman is "the scapegoat of the bureaucrats' hatred...