Word: scapegoatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grim and pitiable figure at the inevitable court of inquiry. His design for the girders, it seems, had just come to him in conversation. Holes in the castings had been plugged with "Beaumont Egg," a sort of crude metal paste. For once the public had found the right scapegoat. Bouch died soon afterwards, a ruined, bitter, ostracized man; his widow took to drink and married a sea captain. Authors Prebble and Kendrick both flatter the modern reader with their implicit assumption that this is a more enlightened age-but there is room for doubt. When Lisbon's walls came...
...SCAPEGOAT (348 pp.)-Daphne Du Maurier-Doubleday...
...Scapegoat's first chapter, set in a French provincial bar, someone jars the hero's elbow and "as I moved to give him space he turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realized, with a strange sense of shock and fear and nausea all combined, that his face and voice were known to me too well. I was looking at myself...
...should be holding his nose. To her romantic shopgirl's imagination. Novelist Du Maurier brings a proficiency for making imminent doom race impending revelation neck and neck, chapter by chapter. Loyal fans need only be told that they will be nervous wrecks by the end of The Scapegoat...
...that he had worked out an elaborate plan for the restoration of Jewish property seized by the Germans, and the Russians wanted to seize it for themselves. What had actually caused his death could only be inferred from the fact that the Soviets blamed all on that old scapegoat. Security Chief Abakumov, without benefit of postmortem...