Word: blame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many a harassed statesman the opportunity to blame the whole fiasco upon Brazil came as a sort of diabolic godsend...
...Since the war," he declared, "the new German generation has been far less physically fit than the youth of previous generations. I blame this on the influence of the War. Because of this a system has been established in Germany whereby, a teacher must take his students, between the age of six and 19 for an eight-hour hike once each month...
...then everyone went into the darkened theatre and wriggled and twisted in his seat and felt vaguely that Shaw must be hitting at him, just because Shaw was always hitting at him. One cannot blame them for wriggling, for when they weren't suffering for the actors. The actors didn't know their lines and took little pains to conceal the state of affairs from the audience. And the audience was far more distressed than the old stagers of the Repertory...
...think me inconsistent--when I have put Schopenhauer away with moth balls. I don't blame you. Far be it from me to emulate the gentleman from Lansdowne Street, especially in the spring and when ginger ale bottles are so expensive...
...students. And no matter how great this might be, it must always be unimportant in comparison to the significance of the personal attitude involved. Until the student can stimulate in himself a challenging spirit toward the patterns of knowledge which a professor can furnish, he has only himself to blame. It is only in some sort of provocative skepticism that he will find the true meaning of his education...