Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always been loath to tangle too closely with The Old Man of RFC, and the Truman Committee was no exception. Not so the Post, Washington's most potent newspaper, which burst out with a red-hot editorial, pointing out that Mr. Jones was hiding behind a screen of blame on the NDAC, the British, the Portuguese, the Dutch, and the President...
Labor alone was not to blame. Boston was cursed with absentee ownership. Only one deep-sea shipowner was left in the New England city that once was the greatest port on the North American continent. Labor troubles, management troubles had to be handled laboriously through agents and middlemen. No major trunk railroads gave the port a tinker's damn...
...only in creased his stature in the world's eye. He stressed the fact that India's political groups must agree before self-government could honorably be given, that Britain could not ignore its pledges to protect the Indian minorities. He offered to take all the blame for the failure of his mission, if that would help to unite India for her own defense. And he gave an eloquent argument for that unity. Said Sir Stafford: "The basic philosophy of the Japanese forces, as of their German counterparts, is that they, as a superior race, have the right...
Part of the blame lies in the production's slow-footed pace, heavy-handed direction, weak acting. But part of the trouble is the play itself. The dialogue, more like subdued rhetoric than human talk, often seems stilted and formal when spoken aloud. The play lacks sustained action and commits the dramatic crime of having almost everything exciting take place offstage. Finally, though the townspeople's heroic resolution is made clear, their flesh-&-blood sufferings...
...hard to know just who to blame for this play. Everybody knows about the red haired Virgin Goddess from Connecticut. You can take her or leave her. Most people want to take her. And Nugent-well, he has a rare sense of comedy, a loping walk, a straightforward manner that is tailor-made to unfreeze the sort of female Hepburn usually plays. Neither of them is up to par in "Without Love," but the real weakness is in the play itself. Barry couldn't decide whether he wanted to write a drawing room comedy or a social drama...