Word: villainizing
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...Panic has boned up this time on the ancient Picts, the psychology of juvenile delinquency and Poe's Purloined Letter. She turns it all into a pretty exciting chase across the Scottish moors. When it's all over, the critical reader may feel as trapped as the villain by the plot's hard-to-believe major premise. Verdict: very good...
...live. But her naturally high voltage and low taste in friends apparently mark her from the beginning as the victim of a crime of passion. When she is rubbed out, tedium sets in. The scene finally gets so crowded with suspicious-looking people that by the time the villain is led away to jail you have the feeling that far too many untrustworthy characters are still lurking about on the wrong side of the bars...
Some readers may lay down this book with a feeling that they have been cheated by a study in which neither party to an inflamed political dispute is indicted as a thoroughgoing villain. Others will find in the book's 114 pages most of the materials necessary to an understanding of the Polish problem. Though the authors are concerned with the dispassionate investigation of history, they make one telling political point: the key to political control of Poland today is agrarian reform. This key is wholly in the hands of Poland's Moscow-dominated government...
...called The Adventures aj Jim Barry, Trouble Shooter. Its hero, who gets off some occasional soap-boxing for "60 million jobs" while solving murder mysteries, is a labor editor who is tall, dark and politically unswerving. His latest triumph was uncovering a murder in a labor-management committee. The villain turned out to be, not the boss, as unsophisticated readers might have expected, but the attorney for "some stockholders." Trapped, the villain hissed: "I don't intend to see Fascism destroyed. I've got a good...
...went home. But New Deal Congressmen still had reservations about three, in particular, of the six appointees: William L. Clayton, whom they consider a "cartelist"; Brigadier General Julius C. Holmes, whom they partly blame for the Darlan policy in 1942; veteran Diplomat James Dunn, whom they regard as the villain of the U.S. appeasement policy toward Franco...