Word: blame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Summer Long," his most recent play failed on Broadway although the critics and a select audience praised it. He was content to blame himself for the plays inability to "take them from behind their television sets in the Bronx." It just wasn't theatrical enough, Anderson explained, or perhaps, he admitted, failure came from not having a big star and a name director...
...Dreyfus story is extremely complicated, and if it sometimes appears totally confused in the film, the script-writer can hardly be blamed. The affair began in 1894, when some secret French defense plans leaked into German hands. The commanders of the French army picked Captain Alfred Dreyfus, the only Jew on the General Staff, to take the blame, and after and absurd court-martial sent him to Devil's Island. Eventually, of course, the novelist Emile Zola came to his aid, with the result that the Captain finally received his freedom and the award of a Legion of Honor...
Pierre Poujade, the election's only real victor, has already predicted that the moribund new assembly "will not last." Even if he is right, no inquest into its demise will be able to pin the ultimate blame on him. The feud between Mendes-France and Edgar Faure split the Radical Socialist Party, rent the Assembly's alliance of moderates, and paved the way for the extremists' victory. As a result, any constructive legislation by the new assembly will require that the center groups, already almost hopelessly divided among themselves, vote nearly unanimously together. The French battle has gone...
...auto sales, relations are more tense between G.M. and its major competitor, Ford, than ever before. Ford executives, who used to meet G.M. friends for a Sunday round of golf, now only nod perfunctorily when they bump into the G.M. crowd at the Bloomfield Hills Country Club. G.M. blames Ford for giving in last summer to the United Automobile Workers' Walter Reuther on the guaranteed annual wage. Fordmen blame G.M. for keeping silent while Reuther turned on Ford first...
Thereafter, she played herself in her own foolish part on the stage in a presentation called Lola Montez in Bavaria. When a performance went wrong in Philadelphia, she knew whom to blame. The conductor, she stormed, had smuggled Jesuits into the orchestra to sabotage her dance. So it went all round the world-lawsuits, horsewhippings, fake suicides, fainting spells, screamings, lovers, comas, seances, and always gentlemen who would take the horses out of her carriage to drag her in triumph to her lodgings. Yet she had the pathos of sincerity that lacked only the understanding of itself. In a sense...