Word: villainized
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...Villainous Christians. In the 19th century, when Townsend Harris, the first U.S. consul, was working out the first commercial treaty with Japan, the main difficulties he met concerned religious freedom for foreigners. Persecution of Japanese Christians was modified somewhat in 1871, when a Japanese diplomatic mission to the U.S. and Europe was greeted by a storm of indignation at the recent deportation of 60 Christian heads of families in the Nagasaki* area. In 1873 the shogunate removed the notices posted in every Japanese marketplace and on street corners threatening death to anyone who turned Christian or harbored Christians. But until...
...parody of the heroic style. It was difficult to tell at first whether the action was farcial by intent or accident ("Where did I get the nerve?" muses the soprano after telling off Xerxes), but as the melodramatic cliches become less widely spaced the audience turned partisan, hissing the villain with all its might. As is proper in a drama of love, war, and deception, there is a chorus strutting about occasionally, singing things like "Prepare to fight with skill and might," and a priestess (attractively played by Elizabeth Theiler) going through a mystic ritual-dance...
When it comes to the why rather than the how of his hero-villain, fledgling Novelist Stone is content with a pat childhood trauma. His portrait of a demagogue is colorful but not colorfast: character blurs into caricature, sentiment into soap opera, speech into speeches. But whatever his novel's shortcomings, Author Stone will doubtless enjoy his forthcoming reign as the undergraduate lion of Harvard Yard...
Mahdawi: Nasser is a villain, despot, a vile President, a Pharaoh Ramses who could not break the will of the struggling Syrians. His newspapers are all servants of Dulles...
...work-there's a man he has to kill. Ma pipes up. "Promise me you'll wear rubbers, son." But Hope rides out to the duel instead, rigs his guns to fire when he tips his hat, drops his man, saves the policy, captures the villain, gets the girl (Rhonda Fleming). Conclusion: as the grateful townsfolk gather around and promise to erect a statue of the hero in the public square, Hope strikes a statuesque attitude, suddenly finds himself occupied by a passing flock of pigeons. Best spot gag: Hope saunters over to a small...