Word: villainizing
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...together. Economic theories, political maneuvers, even the Roosevelt biography-all are told through endless quotations barely held together by some bright phrases. Complex changes are told with the black and white naivete of a medieval morality play even when Schlesinger is not directly dealing with his hero or chief villain: e.g., after World War I, "with peace, selfishness returned"-as simple as that...
...sister and brother. Confronting the steamed-up Stewarts, Colin Wilson had good reason to blanch: not 15 miles away he had a wife and son. With no further pleasantries, Mrs. Stewart fell to pummeling Philosophy Collector Wilson with her weapon, while the others tried to drag Joy from the villain's premises. They screamed at Joy: "You will go to hell!" Their efforts were futile. Wilson was unbruised, Joy unbound, when bobbies swooped down on the domestic scene. Crimson with anger, John Stewart offered Wilson's diary as proof that the rapscallion was "not a genius" but just...
...Senate stepped up its oil hearings last week, almost everyone had the industry pegged as the villain in the case. Oilmen had not only hiked prices as much as 12%; they had also, said the reports, failed to supply enough oil to ease Europe's Suez shortage. But the hearings were hardly under way before the character of the villain underwent an amazing transformation: he began to look almost like a hero. Wyoming's Democratic Joe O'Mahoney. Senate subcommittee chairman, concluded that the price boost was justified for small independents, because oil costs have risen sharply...
...picture is just Hollywood's way of swatting one of its more irritating fleas: most of the people who have been smeared by the scandal magazines are movie stars. But in a deeper sense the moviemakers have served the public too. For in the pursuit of the principal villain they also take a swipe or two at his accomplices-at the readership which settles in cloudlike millions on the garbage which the scandal sheets provide...
...brand-new Moto novel, and the change is significant: no longer need Mr. Moto patiently explain to the young American what the shooting is all about. Instead of an adventurous idealist, Hero Jack Rhyce is a trained CIA agent, as callous and professional as Moto himself. Even the villain is American-a big, handsome Communist so crafty and devious that he hoodwinks Moto into arresting Rhyce as a spy. There is an even more startling difference: in the prewar Moto stories, the clean-cut American usually won the lovable American girl. In the new book, Jack Rhyce wins only...