Word: scapegoatism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...interview after a Friday appearance on WJAR-TV, in "The World Around Us" series, Tillich expressed his opinion that the violence was an indication of a search for a scapegoat, and a rebellion against the "egghead...
Network officials lay much of the blame on the obvious scapegoat: the recession. Late in hitting television (billings were actually up 13% for the first five months of 1958), the recession is now making many a sponsor juggle his advertising dollars, e.g., both Ford and Chrysler are cutting TV expenditures. In addition, some sponsors seem to be disenchanted about the selling power of even top-ranked shows. Chrysler is killing Climax!, and General Electric is switching from Cheyenne, a front-runner in most Nielsen ratings last year, to the new drama Man with a Camera (who uses G.E. flashbulbs...
...Moral Ambiguity. As Daniels sees it, the Prince of Carpetbaggers was part scoundrel and part scapegoat and, as such, an apt symbol of the moral ambiguity of the Reconstruction period. Author Daniels argues that U.S. folklore has too gullibly enshrined the popular Southern myth of the carpetbagger as a devilish Yankee loot-and-run artist. In fact, he was sometimes a champion of Negro rights, sometimes a businessman with venture capital to invest, sometimes a restless Northern war veteran with a yen to revisit the South. If the carpetbagger's hand was plunged in the public till...
...then back to the house to work on a script about Father Damien's leper colony-he wrote most of the scenario for The Horse's Mouth too. After The Horse's Mouth he is scheduled to make a film version of The Scapegoat, by Daphne du Maurier. And after that? "Just keep going on, I guess...
...Americans," he told a television audience last week, "have been a bit difficult about summit talks and what we call taking the peace initiative." With even fewer inhibitions, Aneurin Bevan (the likeliest candidate for Foreign Secretary, should Labor come to power) named the name of Britain's favorite scapegoat, accused Secretary of State John Foster Dulles of spurning an important Soviet "concession" when he rejected the booby-trapped Russian proposal for a foreign ministers' conference to establish a summit meeting agenda...