Word: villainizing
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...Cambodia, the growing Communist threat in Portugal and, to a lesser extent in Italy, have apparently set off a reflex action in many Americans of taking their frustrations and disappointments out on the Soviets. While Moscow is hardly remote from any of these events, it is not the main villain. Part of the trouble is that detente, so highly touted by its originators, had aroused unrealistic expectations. On a more down-home level, a number of Americans worry that new wheat sales to the Soviets will bring a rise in U.S. food prices...
...take daily injections of anticoagulant drugs to fend off any recurrence of his phlebitis. In his thoughts, he often indulges in moments of self-pity. He feels he has been deserted by many of his onetime friends. He considers himself Watergate's wronged victim rather than its chief villain. He blames the media, his political enemies and bad advice from former aides for his unique role in history as the only U.S. President ever forced to quit...
They are, when you come down to it, a pretty unbearable bunch, these characters; only in the end, when they all leave Cambridge, do they become loveable again. The real villain is Harvard. It brings out the worst in everyone, forces people to try pathetically to be more than what they are, excites and stimulates their ostentatiousness. The airs people put on, and that lead to their downfalls, are unmistakeably Harvard airs...
Their favorite villain, throughout, is Harvard University. "Harvard Mission Hill Enemy No.1," the community newspaper headlines read. They protest the constant stream of 30-day eviction notices; they claim Harvard has encouraged "premeditated blight" by buying homes where they intend to put the power plant, letting them run down, and then proceeding to ask for redevelopment power under the law. They see it as a struggle to survive...
Tree Secrets. Other elements of the Bible are similarly warped in the Gnostic scriptures. For example, the Gnostics viewed the serpent of the Garden of Eden as a hero rather than a villain, because he helped reveal the secrets of the Tree of Knowledge that Yaldabaoth had jealously kept from Adam and Eve. Yaldabaoth, working in league with Noah, tried to exterminate the knowledge-seeking Gnostics with a worldwide flood. Later on, he attacked them with brimstone when they sought refuge in the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah...