Word: scapegoatism
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...about Dean. I'm taking this investigation into my own hands. Scapegoat my foot... get him in here. I'm going to get some honorable answers and put an end to these 'unavailable for comments...
...thinly disguised warning, the head of Nixon's first investigation of the Watergate affair insisted that he would not become a "scapegoat...
Good Deal. The farmer does not consider himself the culprit but a scapegoat-and he resents it. If he gets one or two banner years, he reasons, he is expected to do penance for them. Says Harold Steele, an Illinois hog farmer and President of the Illinois Agricultural Association: "People forget that prices were so low two years ago that the farmer was taking a huge loss. Often he had to mortgage 75% of his equity to stay in business." But the farmer does not forget. Living with precarious weather and price cycles, he develops a certain resignation. He complains...
Naturally, Français, Si Vous Saviez became a center of controversy overnight. The pro-government France-Soir praised it as "exciting" and "excellent," while Historian François Furet attacked it as a "monument of crafty demagogy" that sought to turn De Gaulle "from a savior into a scapegoat...
...resign. He insists that the faculty vote against Bellah was only advisory, and that the future of the institute will be charted by the director and trustees. He suggests that the faculty "cool down and get back to work." Bellah also has refused to resign. Viewing himself as a scapegoat, he says, half-jokingly: "This place lacks the normal frictions to release aggressions, so they come out in situations like this." Then, rather sadly gazing out of his window, he adds: "You know, this is a somewhat strange place...