Word: villainizing
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Some of the anger on both sides can obviously be traced to the ordinary frustrations of modern life and the need for a clearly identifiable villain. In one recent incident at an open-air bus terminal in New York City, a woman asked a pipe smoker to move downwind and seemed annoyed when he readily agreed to move. Then the wind shifted and blew a puff past her nose. "You goddam smokers!" the woman screamed. "I don't know how you do it, but you can even blow smoke against the wind...
Some of the politicians around Carter are concerned that if the people cast about for a tax villain, the President may be it, even though he is trying to make the federal burden faker and forms simpler. The average citizen's return doesn't bear Carter's name, but it is probably the most intimate communication that the voter has with the White House all year. Even with the improved short form it is a joyless exercise. So far, tax revolt is a local phenomenon. The IRS has received no more than the usual handful of worn...
...ferocious campaign that the Chairman conducted against Confucius, the nation's exponent of moderation and ethical values. Schoolchildren were taught to denounce the philosopher, while their elders were obliged to chant imprecations against him in public demonstrations. Posters sprang up around the country portraying Confucius as a rapacious villain. One widely circulated comic strip showed a leering Confucius watching slaves being massacred. Red Guards stormed into the village of Chu Fu, where he was born 2,500 years ago, and destroyed the shrine erected in his honor. The People's Daily exulted: "Confucianism is dead once...
...Government starts to view itself as the villain...
John Cassavetes' villain, whose crippled arm rests in a black sling, rarely raises his voice, and what recent villains have had this much sepulchral charm? His end morever, can only be compared to the finale of the 1812 Overture, and provides the one great, cathartic moment in the film...