Word: blame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chorus was massive enough to rout Xerxes' Persian legions but sang with respectable diction and infectious enthusiasm, far outshining the supernatural unimaginativeness of Mr. Yannatos' conductorial efforts in the first three movements. The orchestral contribution was by turns trenchant and languid, almost always exhibiting a sepulchral gravity. The blame must be placed on Mr. Yannatos' amorphous conception of the work. His most persistent problem was metrical confusion, as he repeatedly failed to find the perfect tempo where metrical relaxation and momentum would conjoin...
...should begin by conceding that blame for this tawdry charade of confrontation does not rest entirely with the students. The sit-in challenged the tradition of closed Faculty meetings--a challenge that was not met with the shadow of rational answer Thursday afternoon...
Radicals responded that the administration was to blame for calling off the Faculty meeting since the demonstrators were not preventing anyone from entering the meeting room, that the tactics used were justified because of the immoral nature of ROTC, and that the purpose of the sit-in was not to disrupt the Faculty meeting but to influence the outcome of the meeting...
While much of the blame must go to the performer, I feel most of the responsibility for this vacuum belongs to the director. He evidently has not bothered in the least to get anything more than a shell of a character from his actor. We get waving hands for nervousness; pained looks for sorrow, moody line readings for introspection. With no central character around, we must work too hard to find out what Horovitz is talking about. Finally we give up and watch the proceedings as we would a Sid Caesar sketch. While some of the laughs are there...
Meanwhile, Hayes is lecturing his current crop of quality kids on the dangers of getting the big head. " 'Blame is safer than praise,' " he says, quoting Ralph Waldo Emerson, who, along with General William Westmoreland and Richard Nixon, is one of his favorite philosophers. He continues with Emerson: " 'As soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one who lies unprotected before his enemies...