Word: scapegoatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Considering these facts the University has a disproportionately low influence in metropolitan government, for the combination of wealth and tax exemption has created a political scapegoat, convenient for arousing voters and avoiding issues. The current parking problem is but one example. One local car in eight is owned by a Harvard student. Yet despite the fact that it has the largest off-street parking facilities in the city, the University is held responsible for the city's insufficient accommodations...
...Perhaps if your back side gets wet in Ice water you will be more careful how you decide again. The majority of the People said, Stick him to it, Emma, it is but Just. But the Bishop made an Excuse to go ... & got out of it." Bull & Scapegoat. In the last years of his life, Lee needed Emma's sort of staunchness. Although these diaries do not contain his account of it, Lee had taken part in the brutal Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857, when more than a hundred "Gentile" men, women and children were ruthlessly killed...
After the brief, bloody revolt of June 16, the jolted strongman herded four scapegoats out of his Cabinet. Jerónimo Remorino, Foreign Minister since 1951, was a logical Scapegoat No. 5. As Minister of Worship (the Foreign Minister wears two hats), he had official jurisdiction over church-state relations during Perón's bitter pre-revolt feud with the Roman Catholic Church. But Perón deferred action on Remorino's tendered resignation for a while, possibly to keep the herding from looking like a stampede. Last week, with Remorino disabled by a liver ailment...
...Scapegoat at Hand. In his hour of heretical glory three years ago, Texas Governor Allan Shivers stood tall in the political saddle. Politically, the big state of Texas lay in his pocket. But despite the wave of Eisenhowerism, Texas remained solidly Democratic. No one understood this better than rebel Shivers, as he watched his power dissolve behind him during the post-election years. Under Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House (and single head of the Texas faithful, now that illness has removed Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson from the arena), the Democratic loyalists gathered in new vigor to nibble...
This called for a scapegoat, and there was one handy: National Committeeman Wright Francis Morrow, the silver-haired, wealthy Houston attorney who, arm in arm with Shivers, helped guide the rebellion of '52. Morrow was as far out of favor as Shivers; for two years the national committee had steadfastly denied him a seat...