Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been too easygoing, too loth to issue harsh commands when even a second's delay was fatal. The metal that poured into refrigerators and race-track grandstands six months ago, before WPB got around to calling a halt, was now irretrievably gone. And Nelson sat right where the blame, deserved and undeserved, would all fall...
...Leigh Colvin, President of the New York State W.C.T.U., laid the blame for U.S. war reverses squarely on U.S. intemperance...
...consistently distinguished himself in the war with Hitler. His concrete achievements: the heroic defense of Smolensk, which gave Moscow time to prepare its still unbreached defenses, and the recapture of Rostov last November. But, whether the outcome was good or ill, Timoshenko with his peasant hardiness never shifted blame or credit. Said he to his troops before Rostov last year, when the world tended to believe (with Hitler) that the Russian winter alone was stopping the Germans: "Neither rain nor snow is going to win the battle of Rostov. The outcome depends on our efforts alone...
Somehow, the acting seemed no more to blame than the directing. Individual roles were at times sufficient, but they were too much isolated from the rest of the play. The plot is pure syrup and the interpretation hasn't prevented it from spilling over. When you should be crying you find yourself twisting a program, and you have to be careful to keep from laughing at the wrong time. The treatment is purely Victorian, as the prologue announces, but the return to candid sentimentalism is unfortunately too much for both the cast and the audience...
...Blame for the inertia and dawdling which has kept the proposed Inter-House Committee from developing more rapidly can be laid directly at the doors of the Housemasters, House Committees, and the Freshman Committee of the Student Council. Too hazy on its goals, the Freshman committee has sacrificed direct methods to complicated committee work; and too short-sighted to ignore House loyalties, the House dignitaries have preferred isolationism to cooperation. The original proposals for inter-House integration if carried out efficiently could have helped Freshmen to make friends among their own class and would have halted the rapidly growing segregation...