Word: blame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discontent? Can the couple's 13-year-old son Tony grow into a healthy, normal American boy after he peeps through the cottage blinds and sees his mother in the arms and bed of his 20-year-old counselor-companion Jeff? Is humorless, self-contained Oliver to blame for it all be cause he treats his Hartford, Conn, printing plant as a religion and his wife as a hobby? For the answers to these and many other related questions, tune in to Lucy Crown, a bit of fictional hokey-pokey in 21 chapters by Irwin Shaw...
...checked in with Ed Murrow's filmed 1½-hour See It Now, devoted to Arab-Israeli tensions. The report from Egypt, handled by Howard K. Smith, was particularly chilling as Arab after Arab stepped up to blame the U.S. for all the troubles in the Middle East and to chant fanatically that the only solution was war with Israel. Israeli citizens and leaders were a good deal more skillful than the Arabs in creating an air of reasonableness and common sense but were equally deaf to any suggestion of significant border changes or concessions...
...August 25, a special committee, set up by the Overseers and headed by John Q. Adams, made public its report on the rebellion. Seniors received most of the blame, although they were not considered completely lost souls. "To the senior class is yet reserved the power of exhibiting the honourable example of return from transient error to generous and liberal submission," the report stated...
...commission of business representatives from Thailand, Japan, England, the United States, and India last March placed the blame for the situation on the "slowness and incompetence of government services." The commission criticized the government's failure to realize that Thailand no longer was in a position to dictate terms to the buyers. It deplored the widespread practice of bribing government agents, and recommended that Pibul's government give up its monopoly on the job as middleman for rice-growers...
...salaries paid the college and the high school graduate, they could induce more students to put themselves through college than their hundred scholarships will ever lure. The pollsters have, however, confused the effort to sell higher education to the public, by reporting that half of those who miss college blame poverty. Their claim is correct, but they have obscured the fact, clearly seen in case studies, that nine out of ten insolvents can go to college if they really want...