Word: villainous
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...kids find themselves on the knee of a big fat white man with a bushy white beard. And little Jewish kids mut live with the suspicion, even while they are trimming a tree or opening a Christmas present, that somewhere in this story of brotherly love there's a villain, and it appears to be themselves...
...figured, all right, I'm going to try and write the kind of stories I might enjoy if I read comic books. I figured, what would I like? I wouldn't want these card-board figures who are just one-dimensional--a character who's all good, and the villains are all bad. And at the end of the story, the villain loses and the hero wins." He continues, with mock earnesty, "I figured there must be more to life than that. So we came up with heroes who worried about dandruff, allergy attacks, bad colds, fallen arches, acne...
Well. We certainly do not have limitless options individually. Even in the affluent America Hougan describes, there are severe economic and social strictures placed on a great many people on the basis of class and race. Even if the villain, at least in part, is technique, it is older and more easily defined things as well, things that people are firmly in control of. Hougan's well-to-do factory workers still have little choice but to be factory workers, and the productivity ethic that makes them unhappy is more the product of those who benefit from that productivity than...
Jawaharlal Nehru, Hindu leader of India's Congress Party and the first native Prime Minister, is also warmly praised for his Brahman sensitivity. The villain of the book is Mohammed Ali Jinnah, fanatical leader of the Moslem League, who demands the separate state of Pakistan for his people. "We shall have India divided," he warns, "or we shall have India destroyed...
Again, as in "Goin' to Acapulco," Dylan is acting a part, and there is no actor anywhere better than Bob Dylan. When he asks rhetorically "Why am I always the one who must be the thief?" his voice seeps with the bitterness of a father cast as a villain when all he ever intended was love...