Word: scapegoatism
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LINCOLN'S SCAPEGOAT GENERAL by Richard S. West Jr. 462 pages. Houghton Mifflin...
...once been part of Empire. At the end, few who paid him tribute remembered how bitterly the old statesman had been reviled in his time. Denounced in turn as charlatan, braggart, turncoat and warmonger, he was many times defeated at the polls, swept from high office, made the scapegoat of others' failures. But if Churchill was sometimes wrong, on the great issues of his times he was most often right. History will forgive his faults; it can never forget the indomitable, imperturbable spirit that swept a people to greatness...
During his brief career as an amateur politico Portlist has collected dozens of uncomplimentary labels. He has been called a demagogue, a Communist, and a scapegoat. His own view of himself is less sinister. "I'm a crank," he declares. "The far right doesn't have a monopoly...
Defeat by a total of 48 min. 11 sec. was half again as bad as Sceptre's loss in 1958. Britons tended to find a scapegoat in Helmsman Scott, but that was unfair: Sovereign was so far outclassed that it needed an engine. "Damn," said one U.S. yachtsman, "why did the British have to come up with a boat like this?" But Constellation had barely crossed the finish line when Australia's Sir Frank Packer, whose Gretel made a fair show of it in 1962, handed an envelope to Commodore Chauncey Stillman of the New York Yacht Club...
Loudest skeptics are Europe's leftists, who will not be dissuaded from their original conviction that Marxist Lee Harvey Oswald was the unwitting tool or the scapegoat of some well-oiled, darker rightist conspiracy, and then was silenced by Jack Ruby. This impression was fed by the bad assumptions made by many reporters and commentators in the first minutes after the assassination in conservative Dallas, and it has never been fully erased. "The American press," declared Italy's left-wing magazine Vie Nuove in a recent issue, "has forgotten its glorious tradition of truth and democracy, playing along...