Word: villainizing
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...fast becoming evident to Republicans (local candidates in increasing numbers were calling for his help) and Democrats alike that Dick Nixon is taking most of the tricks in the political game that had him typed by the Democrats as 1956's Public Villain...
Nevertheless, Kendall argues that Richard took the throne not because he was an unscrupulous villain but because the nation needed a strong ruler. Richard reigned for two years before he got his comeuppance. During that time he "laid down a coherent program of legal enactments, maintained an orderly society, and actively promoted the well-being of his subjects." Besides, murder was "the accustomed fate of deposed monarchs . . . Edward II was murdered, perhaps by a red hot spit thrust up his bowel. Richard II was starved, poisoned or hacked by steel . . . The feeble-witted Henry VI ... put to silence." So, guilty...
...Manhattan, where he compiled a respectable scholastic average, but failed to graduate because he rebelled against the science-heavy required curriculum. Undisputed highlight of his college career: a scene in a student production of Chip the Miner's Daughter, where, as the hero, he shouted: "What ho! The villain steals the gold!" then was slugged by the villain with a bag filled with nuts, bolts and nails. Surgeons had to repair his fractured skull by installing a metal plate above his right eye. Met and married, in 1931, a fellow journalism student, Gladys Hope Dowd. They have four adopted...
...impartial stand, however precarious. The side Britain has chosen is not pro-Israel, but anti-Nasser. Egypt's 38-year-old military ruler, once hopefully regarded by the British-even though he drove them from the Suez-is now in British eyes the Middle East's Villain...
...solution is rich in irony, richer still in its humanity. The hero, when all is said and done, has accepted the pattern. Playwright Serling does not sneer at him, and he does not sneer at the pattern. Big Business is not the villain of Serling's piece. There is no villain. There is only the same big world, and another little man who gets lost...