Word: blame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure that's so prevalent. I would suggest that black people are still enslaved in one way or another, and I don't think they're really so ready to find scapegoats as to find reasons to blame it on the total American scene. It's an anti-white attitude period. To me, it eventually all goes back to economics. Jewish people say, "Well, I've been discriminated against, I was a second-class citizen and so I'm going to do something about it." But they still continue to practice the same discrimination...
...could say: "There's a bullfight in Madrid? Good, let's go to Madrid." Since the bombs fell, we've had one disaster after another. The water has gone bad. The orange trees have dried up. The tomatoes don't grow. I don't blame the bombs for everything. I don't blame any body. But life has gone from here. Within a few years, this village will be empty. The face of Jose Flores Gomez is creased from 60 years of weather and laughter and, when he speaks, his dark eyes dance...
...miners were given severance pay in land instead of pesetas. Pride of ownership and an abundance of sweet water from deep wells coaxed from the arid land the best tomatoes in all of Almeria province. Since the bombs fell, the tomato crops have failed six successive times. Palomarenos blame radioactivity, but the failure may well be due to other causes. Drought has turned Palomares' water brackish. and the plowing three years ago apparently brought old salt deposits to the surface...
...Treasury Frederick Deming reported, the trade surplus shrank to a "miserable $500 million, down $3 billion from 1967's respectable but relatively poor showing and down more than $6 billion from the 1964 level." Inflation, the Viet Nam war, and higher imports (see following story) share the blame. Only because many foreign investors poured funds into the U.S. was the nation able to achieve a $150 million surplus in its balance of payments. It was the first such surplus in eleven years...
Fred Hechinger, education editor of the New York Times, argues convincingly that students seeking to make their college education more relevant have chosen the wrong target. Faculties, not administrators, he says, are to blame for the neglect of undergraduate teaching, for overemphasis on science and for the indifference of some urban universities to their ghetto neighbors...