Word: scapegoatism
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...would create a significant softening of the Administration's rhetoric. Agnew was Nixon's most flamboyant and aggressive agent in last fall's campaign. Now, like other Vice Presidents before him, including Richard Nixon, he is being cast by some in the White House as a scapegoat for the G.O.P.'s performance. Nixon certainly cannot quarrel with the substance of what Agnew said during the campaign. In retrospect, however, there was something in Agnew's manner, his unpredictability and ferocity, that Nixon did not entirely like. The President, for example, sent Agnew out to capsize...
...present wave of abuse began shortly after the Six-Day War in 1967. Because the swift defeat of Moscow's Arab allies by Israel made Soviet foreign policy appear inept, the Kremlin needed a scapegoat. Soviet propagandists blamed a worldwide conspiracy of Zionists backed by neo-Nazis and U.S. imperialists. Authorities began publishing books and pamphlets portraying Jews as vile drunks, rapists and drug pushers. In Love and Hate, Author Ivan Shevtsov has the Jewish villain kill his mother to gain his inheritance. The Soviet press also berates the Jews for their "God-chosen-ness" and argues that "Judaism...
...woman. Unfortunately, Lori Heineman isn't quite capable of infusing the role with the stature and presence it demands. She is simply not convincing as a foil for D'Artagnan and the rest of the boys in his band, and so ends the play more a pathetic scapegoat than tragic villainess...
...nation into an admiring submission. The Civil Rights movement-probably the closest thing the sixties saw to a "poor people's movement"-created a perhaps unavoidable fear in the poor white Southerner's mind that he was being singled out by a Northern elite as a target and scapegoat. All but the best of the nonviolent leaders of that decade allowed their view of situations to lapse into a "we/them" view with most of the American people occupying the role of them...
...times. As a result, many schools opened late, and classes may soon halt for about 35,000 children in two districts where votes are still pending. Nor is this phenomenon limited to the Show Me state. Coast to coast, public schools have made the transition from sacred cow to scapegoat in less time than it takes to say John Dewey...