Word: blame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pointed out that both Houses have already given approval to three of the main points, namely the executive assistants, the Department of Public Welfare, and the power of the President to rearrange agencies, Pettee placed part of the blame for the Bill's defeat on "the over-optimism which caused the Administration to insist on the whole Bill or nothing...
...newspapermen whom he called to his office, Premier Daladier explained that "France is occupied with looking everywhere and with everybody for a settlement, which, however, demands loyalty, reciprocity and parallel action.'' Thus indirectly he tossed on Signer Mussolini the blame for the impasse of the friendship talks. "However." continued the Premier, "France will persist in proving her close union, her calm self-possession. She can do it because she is strong. Her will for peace is her first guarantee, her strength is her supreme guarantee. No matter what the circumstances, France is fully capable of assuring the inviolability...
...simply their unenergetic point of view, their professional instead of artistic preoccupation, their lack of a theory on the value of the Classics for which one must blame the department. Some of the techniques now in use can also be criticized. A course for beginners in Latin, the need for which has been neglected, ostrich-fashion, should be given. The department must face the unpleasant fact that, partly by vigorously preserving the Classical tradition, the Division must itself assume the burden of elementary instruction. The fact that there are more students this year in Greek, where such a course...
Contemplators of Land of the Free will probably rate it above Panic and The Fall of the City, But they will feel both worried and baffled. The bafflement they can blame on a hybrid art form that at least is earnestly ambitious, at worst is a humorless bollix. The worry they can blame on Poet MacLeish's extraordinary ability to hit topical points straight on the head with whatever instrument happens to come to hand. The conclusion they will probably draw is that Archibald MacLeish is so much of a poet that even his bad books make good points...
...Council of Reason." How long we have been going backward Mr. Lewis does not say. But in apportioning the blame, he goes back only to June 1937. Since then: ". . . Neither industry nor Government has come forth with constructive proposals designed to meet the problems of the depression. The Federal Congress, lacking adequate or competent leadership . . . has failed to devise or enact a single statute that would cause a glimmer of hope to penetrate the minds of millions of despairing Americans...