Word: blame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That kind of detail, plus the fact that Churchill placed much of the blame on the British government, touched feelings of guilt in England. "It is British policy to keep Nigeria one and to keep it one by force of arms," he wrote. "Because the British government have never publicly disassociated themselves from these wanton and deliberate bombing raids-as they felt compelled to do in regard to the American bombing raids on North Viet Nam-Britain must bear a very grave responsibility...
...York's New School for Social Research, often turn to unbelief when they move from the unprecedented happiness of a modern childhood into the cruel adult world. When they encounter institutions that are not as benign as they should be, they revolt. Harvey Cox laid the blame for such revolts at the door of the church itself. "It may be that the major reason for unbelief is not that people find the Gospel incredible but that they find the church incredible," he said. "The church of the Prince of Peace is unable to take decisive action against...
...blame for such notorious tax avoidance properly rests on the law, not its lucky beneficiaries. For a generation the guiding philosophy of loophole users has been that of the late Justice Learned Hand: "There is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands." Financier J. P. Morgan put it more bluntly: "If Congress insists on making stupid mistakes and passing foolish tax laws, millionaires should not be condemned if they take advantage of them...
...carrying a water pistol so that she could drill an occasional paparazzo who leaned in the car a little too far. But what could one do? Journalists were everywhere. Was it her fault that she kept getting shot in bikinis and microskirts and plunging necklines? Was she to blame if some 80 magazines put her on their covers...
Feuer finally judges student movements to be both destructive and self-destructive. "Parricide, regicide, and suicide"-so goes his sequence. He heaps blame on students for a lot more than just World War I. You name the issue; Feuer makes a tie-in. Fascism: Student Leader Karl Pollen and his dagger-wearing elitists "set back for a generation the liberal aspirations of the German people . . . The heritage of the German student movement of 1817 was transmitted to the Nazis." Communism: Russian students "stood back perturbed and bewildered," says Feuer, when the Bolshevik Revolution finally occurred...