Word: scapegoat
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...professors for "economy" reasons, announced that he had settled his $100,000 libel suit against the college for $50,000, and had withdrawn his $500,000 damage suit against eleven trustees. After both sides agreed to say nothing more, Wagner fired a Parthian shot: "[I was] a scapegoat . . . I carried out the instructions of the board of trustees . . ." Then he announced his new job: executive director of the Ford-sponsored Film Council of America, which produces and distributes educational films...
Faure, well knowing that Acheson has no legal power to commit U.S. troops, murmured evasively: "This news is obviously premature." Last week he found a scapegoat for the news story. His Information Minister called in the news agency's director general, Maurice Negre, 51, and suspended him. The government could do so because it pays more than half the agency's bills...
...become less & less Catholic. American Catholics seem to him "overly concerned with money and sex, asking continually for one and condemning continuously the other. Love of money-even money for the erection of cathedrals-is the root of all evil, and prolonged concentration on one sin, particularly the old scapegoat sin of lust, is normally an indication that other sins are being covered...
Fault for the lack of an audience does not lie with that traditional scapegoat. "Harvard apathy." It exists because local debates provide no audience appeal what-soever. By keeping to the old system of four speeches and two rebuttals, the debaters have minimized one of debating's most interesting features, the genuine clash of ideas. And by arguing the same subject time and time again during the year, they have reduced debating to the status of mental weight-lifting...
Anderson's Socrates, as he moves about Athens, is humorous, misleadingly softspoken, exasperatingly inquisitive, relentlessly logical-so very much a gadfly that it's no wonder he was made into a scapegoat. And as played by English Actor Barry Jones, with brilliant ease and assurance, he takes on genuine personality. Raiding history a second time-for a theme-Anderson contrasts democracy in Athens with dictatorship in Sparta, a parallel with modern times that Anderson isn't the first to note. Though the point is well worth making, Socrates has to be lassoed into making it. Socrates...