Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blame for Conway...
Robert Conway has been nominated as the "Biggest Damn Fool of the Year" [TIME, April 22]. . . . The blame is not on Conway. He is but a tool, an agent of the New York Daily News and its readers. The News and its allied organs do not exist in a vacuum, printing blasts of prejudice from an editorial ivory tower contrary to the opinions of the rest of mankind. They exist because their millions of readers want to believe perversions of the truth...
...blame a man for stating the obvious, however dull it may be. But . . . has [the Bishop] never observed, or even heard, that after an exhausting effort men and nations are inclined to be irritable and critical and also inclined to absenteeism . . . except, perhaps, bishops, who are not as other...
...First of all we can blame our popular religion. . . . Next . . . our own popular bad taste. . . . But . . . the funeral industry itself is most to blame...
Last week he "reluctantly" resigned from Hartford's (Episcopalian) Trinity College faculty. Then Trinity's best-known, most-respected professor, now 61, put the finger of blame on handsome young (35) Businessman-President George Keith Funston, one of his ex-students. Shepard charged Funston with refusing to grant him a year's leave for what he described as "acute mental fatigue." Said he: "I am left with these alternatives: to submit to a ruling [reflecting] lack of confidence in my veracity . . . OT to resign...