Word: scapegoats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scapegoat for his economic problems. Gomulka fired Minister of Agriculture Edward Ochab, once a Stalinist too, but later a collaborator of Gomulka's in liberalizing agriculture. Ochab had been home barely a week from a trip to the U.S. when the blow fell (he got a new post in the party secretariat). By implication, he was blamed for the colossal meat mess this year that has left Poland, once a substantial food exporter, hardly able to feed itself. To make matters worse, inflation is a major threat, largely because of higher bonuses and wages that factory chiefs have been...
...Castro, shaken by a key defection in his rebel army that same day, and reports that terrorists were at work, filled the air with machine gun and 40-mm. antiaircraft fire. The wild evening of gunplay killed two Cubans and wounded 48. After that, in frenzied need of a scapegoat, he inevitably launched a TV tirade against the U.S., charging that Havana had been bombed. He had to reach back in history to find a match for the infamy: "This is our Pearl Harbor...
...moved out of neighborhoods to escape Puerto Ricans and have to pay much larger rents are inclined to blame their difficulty on the Puerto Ricans who moved in. People who have to stay although they would like to move out blame their distress on the Puerto Ricans, the scapegoat...
...Scapegoat is a frayed, middle-aging English professor (Alec Guinness) who goes on a holiday in France with nothing to declare but a hollow in the heart. He no sooner suggests that "a man has to be empty before he can be used" than he has a chance encounter with a decadent French count (Alec Guinness) whom he strikingly resembles. The professor is tricked into assuming the Frenchman's identity, along with a down-at-the-plumbing Loire chateau crammed with impressive horrors: the count's plaintive wife (Irene Worth), who fears for her life because...
...score the movie succeeds where the book failed: the suspense turns not on Whether the scapegoat will reveal himself but on how he will handle himself in each situation. And moviegoers have the best of Author du Maurier's bestseller props: intrigue, murder, romance, another haunted Manderley setting, and a generous helping of hokum. As the author herself commented on her work: "This time I have gone the whole...