Word: villainized
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...ever pulled that trick, and there are purists who still argue that the author cheated. But if the device came as a revelation, the source should not have. Six years earlier, Christie had broken ground modestly in her first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles; the villain was the first and most obvious suspect, from whom attention had long since been diverted...
Although inflation is the chief villain, heavy borrowing by the Treasury to finance the Ford Administration's $60 billion budget deficit has also helped to push interest rates higher. So, too, has a deliberate tightening of monetary policy by the Federal Reserve Board. Having allowed the money supply to expand at an unusually brisk annual rate of 14% to 15% during May and June, the Federal Reserve cut back slightly in July to bring monetary growth more in line with its announced goal of 5% to 7½% per year. Chairman Arthur Burns has been emphasizing recently that...
...there is any villain in all this, it is probably the ratio. And the ratio has become a hot topic of late. Last spring, a committee chaired by Karl Strauch, professor of Physics, issued a much-ballyhooed list of recommendations about the Harvard-Radcliffe relationship, the most important of which was that the ratio be dropped in favor of an admissions policy of "equal access." Equal access sounds great on paper: every applicant will be judged solely on the basis of his or her qualifications, without regard to sex. No longer will there be any of those artificial quotas...
When there's no villain, it gets very easy to blame yourself. I sat through an entire year of Ec 10, usually the only woman in the section on any given day, and I never opened my mouth unless I was forced to. Every day I would promise myself I would raise my hand; at night I would lie awake trying to think of questions that wouldn't sound embarrassingly stupid; and after every section, I would leave despondent, furious at myself, my muteness unbroken. I can't help wondering now how different things might have been if there...
Here, it would seem, is one area where it's possible to point a finger, to find a villain. If there are practically no women on the faculty, there must be someone who is making the decisions not to hire them. But talk to President Bok, and he will tell you that it's not his fault; you should talk to Dean Rosovsky. Talk to Dean Rosovsky and he will tell you there's nothing he can do about it; it's the individual departments. But it even goes beyond the individual department level--the root of the problem...