Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hastily absolving McCarthy of all blame for the Yankees' failures, MacPhail refused to accept the resignation. He suggested instead that Joe go home for a rest. The 58-year-old manager, who has suffered from a gall bladder ailment and who could certainly afford to retire if he felt like it (total earnings with the Yankees: some $500,000), shuffled off to Buffalo to think things...
...first the committee had felt disposed to blame only one of the club's 1,550 members. But regretfully they had come to the conclusion that more were involved. If the revelation did not shame the culprits into decent behavior, said the tart letter, the committee would not hesitate, under Rule 29, to invoke the extreme penalty: expulsion from the club for unbecoming conduct...
Then Lord Wavell made a remarkable statement: "I wish to make it clear that the responsibility for the failure is mine. The main idea underlying the conference was mine. If it had succeeded, its success would have been attributed to me, and I cannot place the blame for its failure upon any of the parties...
...your chairs. This is going to be one you don't like-two-thirds of those [houses] were built by private enterprise. Why have we not built houses? You can ask Mr. Attlee and Mr. Bevin and that great London hero Mr. Morrison, for if we are to blame, they are too." Mention of Labor's leaders sent the hecklers into a new frenzy. Said Churchill: "Another two minutes will be allowed for booing, if you'd like...
...history - if you want to go to pieces I think it's absolutely O.K. but I think you ought to write a first-rate novel about it . . . instead of spilling it in little pieces." And soon Fitzgerald, with amazing fortitude, set out to do just that. "I never blame failure," he told his daughter Frances, "but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort." In The Last Tycoon he made a last, powerful effort both to create an objective character and to explain his own dilemma - that of a man torn between the "moneyed celebrity" of Hollywood...