Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blame for Italy's being in history's junk yard? Italy's witty ex-Premier Francesco Nitti named a couple of safe scapegoats: Christopher Columbus and Niccolo Machiavelli. Machiavelli, Nitti explained, had "made us Italians out as men who are always ready to lie," Columbus was an even bigger culprit: his "indiscretion," Nitti claimed, had "shifted the axis of the world to the West," and Italy had been off the beam ever since...
...ours is the century of the uneducated Common Man, of the perpetually adolescent Common Man, of the Common Man unskilled in the art of living. For this he is not to blame. [Our arts] are controlled by profit-hungry manipulators of a populace which has not by education been assisted to arrive at judgment about beauty. Those who have to do with educational policy-making . . . must rescue the Common Man. Otherwise ... the Century of the Common Man will end in a worse enslavement . . . enslavement to a standardized vulgarity sold as the good life by a group of rascals bent...
...been done so often before, Mr. White places the blame for World War II on the harsh Versailles Treaty, the iniquitous French, and the inexorable movement of economic forces which forced Germany to accept Hitler. And the moral to the tale is that we must "permit a free and democratic Germany to emerge from the present chaos, in which this industrious and talented people may work and enjoy the fruits of their labors on an equal basis with other nations...
...Paris meetings will result in requests for help so high that the U.S. Congress will throw up its hands. Then Europe, disillusioned and bitter, will turn to us. So let us play along with the Paris conference, get the requests up as high as possible, and put the blame for failure...
...Pretend?" All mortal sins must be confessed, but confession of minor offenses (like wife-nagging) is optional. Father Wilson says that there is no use worrying about long forgotten sins: "If [the Lord] does not recall the sin to your mind, He has no one to blame but Himself...