Word: scapegoatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...strong in his support of Syngham Rhee '10, President of the South Korean government. He maintained that Rhee is merely being used as a scapegoat in the present struggle. Rhee was elected, Rim said, by popular vote because the people backed him. Now an unfair attempt is being made to place all the blame upon his shoulders...
...under pride & prejudice. To a vocal majority, deposed President Paul Wagner, the young whirlwind who came triumphantly on the scene two years ago, was now the self-seeking villain of the piece who had richly earned his comeuppance. To a dwindling minority who still supported Wagner, he was the scapegoat in a situation he had worsened but not made. On orders from an economy-minded board of trustees, Wagner had abruptly fired one-third of the faculty this spring (TIME, March 9). But in the heat of debate, there was now no agreement even on the primary question of whether...