Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rosika Schwimmer, famed war-to-war pacifist (who persuaded Henry Ford to send his "Peace Ship" to Europe in 1915), turned 70 in Manhattan, plumped for world government, laid the blame for war: "Men, women, young people, old people, capital, labor, militarists, churches, educators, scientists," said she, "accuse each other for causing and keeping up the war system they all proclaim to hate. They are all wrong and equally guilty...
...communistic word. What did the U.S.A. do? Nothing. The eager young people who appeared for us paid their own way to Prague, collected their own exhibit items. They were nice kids, sincere, enthusiastic. If they did not represent our country as many of us believe it should be represented, blame the Government. . . . We failed completely to grasp the opportunity to show 30,000 serious boys & girls what the Government of America can mean to them...
...very unpleasant fact, says British Poet-Novelist Leonard A. G. Strong, that many children enter school with a natural liking for poetry and are taught to dislike it. Who is to blame? Why, the poetry teachers, answers Strong, who has been a poetry teacher himself.* In his chapter in a new symposium, The Teaching of English in Schools (Macmillan & Co. Ltd., London), Strong distinguishes six common deficiencies in poetry teachers: The teacher dislikes poetry. "A great deal of the current British hostility to poetry dates from the careers of Byron and Shelley, reinforced by that of Oscar Wilde, which have...
...soon be forced to choose between his bowstrings. The Army blame his labor laws and his inflationary wage increases for the country's deteriorating economy; but if he tries to withdraw the favors granted, he runs the risk of losing labor support. If he does nothing, and the economy worsens, his split with the Army will widen. Perón, conscious of this danger, has harped on the theme of "nefarious forces" attempting to sabotage his regime. Government newspapers have recalled that 1,500,000 died in the Mexican revolution. Evita, echoing the ominous note, said last week...
Free Play. The Securities & Exchange Commission finally published the results of its exhaustive inquiry into the causes of last fall's sharp break in the stockmarket. There was no evidence, said the report, that manipulators were to blame. In fact, said SEC, the drop of 10½ points last Sept. 3 was the result of no more than "the free play of different opinions as to when to buy and when to sell...