Word: blame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Admiral John Hyland, Pacific Fleet commander, had himself disagreed with the court of inquiry's stand, and Admiral Thomas Moorer, Chief of Naval Operations, sided with Hyland (though the final decision rested with Chafee). In effect, the Navy's top command was accepting the fact that the blame for Pueblo had to be shared. The Navy still had to cope with the problem of maintaining its long tradition of tenacity in battle. Said one senior officer: "We won't have any trouble provided that everyone gets the message. If they do, they will know they are still...
Actually, it verges on caricature to blame pragmatic intellectuals for so much of the war. Both John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson relied heavily on other kinds of advisers, notably the military, with its enthusiastic contingency plans. Moreover, it was primarily intellectuals who inspired a national dissidence sufficient to drive Lyndon Johnson from office. Still, the war does demonstrate that many scientists and scholars have not yet learned to handle their worldly roles. Some have been blinded by government research, which has transformed the nature of American universities. Yet few modern intellectuals can retreat to ivory-tower isolation. How, then, should...
...Forced Uphill. Among preemies, a common cause of death is formation of a glassy membrane in the lungs, which prevents oxygenation of the blood. This hyaline membrane disease carried off Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, the late President's son, in the 40th hour of his life, and is to blame for at least 25,000 infant deaths in the U.S. each year. Despite years of research, the immediate cause of the disease is still unknown...
Where do you place the blame -- where do you place the responsibility for what happened...
Hansen might profitably have tried to examine the network of small-town malice, envy and ambition at work in the trials, which the modern rational and liberal mind likes to blame for the whole Salem tragedy-most dramatically exhibited in Arthur Miller's grinding parable, The Crucible. A chapter sketching the life and death of Puritanism would have been useful; as Hansen has indicated, much of what is popularly supposed about the Puritans is incorrect. But Hansen has done two things admirably well: he has suggested how nearly impossible it is to see another era clearly through the accretion...