Word: scapegoat
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...Your article on the crisis over ROTC [March 7] put the matter squarely in focus. The military has become the scapegoat for many of our social ills. And the converse is true: our present military system has been virtually absolved in areas where it has perpetrated the most vicious harm-notably, conscription...
...MIGHT think that the psychological release this impotent little man got through venting his latent anger on a mythological figure like the Sheik was harmless, if not therapeutic. But the scapegoat phenomenon proved to excite rather than to purge the audience...
...Tuesday, Jan. 14, Americans should have realized that the good man who has been every American's scapegoat for the past five years was indeed sincere in his efforts to move the U.S. ahead. Economic, domestic and international problems have long been festering in our country and the world. They did not arrive in Washington when Lyndon Johnson took of fice; nor is it likely that they will leave with Richard Nixon as President...
...same time, the black understands all too well that the Jew has not yet been totally accepted by white Christian society?which makes him a convenient scapegoat. After all, it is a role that he has played throughout history. "He is still insecure about his place in American society," suggests Psychiatrist Jack Morganstern of U.C.L.A. "You hit him and he's going to hesitate about hitting you back." Historian Joseph Boskin of the University of Southern California points out that the Jewish sense of liberalism and fair play sometimes borders on masochism. "If you have a fair-housing march through...
...better tolerated if this were not a time of profound frustration for Britain. Continuing sterling crises, the harshest austerity budget ever, constantly shrinking power abroad, combined with an unpopular and unresponsive government at home-all help to create a mood of anxiety. Powell has given the frustrated British a scapegoat for their rage: "the colored." He predicts that within a generation "we shall have succeeded in reproducing 'in England's green and pleasant land' the haunting tragedy of the United States." He offers the simplistic judgment that "the people of England will not endure it." He offers...