Word: villainizing
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...cost be high, but that production itself would suffer in the process. Most economists, on the other hand, contend that total economic output would hardly be changed, and they scoff at the idea that growth itself is the real menace. They contend that the critics have picked the wrong villain, much as Britain's ax-wielding Luddite workers did when they deliberately destroyed new machinery during the early 19th century in the belief that machines swallowed jobs. "I cannot conceive of a successful economy without growth," says Walter Heller, former chairman of the President's Council of Economic...
Terrell played the villain in his match with Ufford, twice intercollegiate champion when he was at Harvard. The 39-year-old Ufford played incredibly well, much to the delight of the crowd which was solidly behind the "old man." Ufford used a series of drop shots and wrist backhands to run Terrell off the court in four games...
...behave as he thought it should. Far more than his earlier interview, it was his own tragedy on film, the first national look at the man as he really was behind the White House scenes. Johnson's hero was his loyal Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; his villain. Defense Secretary Clark Clifford. In Johnson's account of how he ordered the bombing of North Viet Nam partially halted on March 31, 1968, it was Rusk-not Clifford-who suggested the idea. Rusk. L.B.J. related, first broached the point March 4, and it was Rusk who argued against Clifford...
...drama. Arthur Kopit's Indians played only twelve weeks; some critics considered it noisy, disorganized theater; some audiences seemed to find the penitential message discomfiting. A pro-Indian movie, Little Big Man, starring Dustin Hoffman, has been filmed on Montana's Crow reservation. It portrays George Custer as a villain leading troops bent on genocide. Three books personalizing Indian alienation have won critical acclaim. A novel, House Made of Dawn, by N. Scott Momaday, a Kiowa who teaches English at Berkeley, won a Pulitzer prize last year. Custer Died for Your Sins, by Vine Deloria, a Standing Rock Sioux, wryly...
Patton advances a highly original thesis: the villain of World War II was not Germany, but Britain. The movie's hero, General George S. Patton (George C. Scott), is distantly analyzed by little Goethes in Nazi uniforms. They pronounce him "a magnificent anachronism" and America's most fearsome belligerent. The British, on the other hand, are all whining limeys whose vindictive leader, Field Marshal Montgomery, nourishes his ego on the bones of American troops. One can imagine an equally distorted British interpretation mounting Monty as a knight-errant and Patton as a gorilla...