Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...facts about 'The People's Taste.' Such criticisms are really criticisms of the American educational system for not raising the 'cultural level' of Americans, for not getting them interested in 'the better things' when they are young. Radio then gets the blame for this failure...
Halsey's explanation of the Pearl Harbor fiasco will strike most readers as being naive or evasive. He ignores the evidence of Annapolis Classmate Kimmel's laxness (borne out by one of the photographs in Halsey's book, TIME, Oct. 27), writes: "Who, then, is to blame? . . . The attack succeeded because Admiral Kimmel and General Short could not give Pearl Harbor adequate protection. They could not give it because they did not have it to give. . . . The blame for Pearl Harbor rests squarely on the American people and nowhere else...
...letters blame the Princetonian for inciting the struggle which they insist should have been enforced in September, not late October. One Freshman points out the food wastage and another decries the "splitting into factions" of the undergraduate spirit "needed sorely for the football games coming this and the following weekends...
...Harvard Square area, and as the Council itself has said: "Once they crack down, it will not be safe to leave a car on the street." If in the next few weeks, car owners are caught without parking space in the midst of a vast enforcement campaign, the blame will rest on student Council negligence...
...Inspector Calls (by J. B. Priestley; produced by Courtney Burr & Lessor H. Grosberg) and, finding the smug, well-to-do Birling family all at home, accuses one startled member after another of being partly to blame for a young working girl's suicide. Mr. Birling had once sacked the girl from his factory. On another occasion, Mr. Birling's daughter got her dismissed from a shop. The daughter's fiance had had an affair with the girl; so had Mr. Birling's son, who got her with child; Mrs. Birling had refused her charitable...