Word: blame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number of good musicians at Harvard, four pianists is a paltry showing. The total lack of string and wind players is disgraceful. One can only conclude that the competition no longer demands the attention of the musical community. Poor timing and almost non-existent publicity are both to blame. Still it is disheartening to see such an opportunity generate so little excitement...
...outraged by the fact that your "Tragedy at Lynchburg" [Dec. 29] article totally neglected to put even the slightest blame for what happened on the owner of the German shepherd dogs. Dog ownership carries with it a responsibility not unlike that of parenthood, and since TIME was so careful to point out that latter responsibility in a recent Essay, how could you have failed to recognize that Mr. Ernest G. Floyd's irresponsibility was the true cause of this tragedy...
...Michigan. In the weeks preceding Christmas, it spread to eight other states, creeping as far south as Florida. In one Alabama county, 7,000 persons went to their doctors with flulike symptoms. In Ohio, 40% of the students at one school were absent. Still, U.S. health officials refused to blame the wave of illness specifically on Asian flu. Weeks of lab testing are necessary before flu viruses can be isolated and identified. And the symptoms of Asian flu-three to four days of fever, coughing, sore throat, aches and pains-are also indicative of any number of respiratory infections...
Unlike some of the physicists who helped produce the atomic bomb, Fieser has no moral qualms about his role in producing one of modern warfare's most fearful weapons: "I have no right to judge the morality of napalm just because I invented it." Nor does he blame the Dow Chemical Co. for manufacturing napalm: "If the Government asked them to take a contract, and they're the best ones in a position to do so, then they're obliged...
...lighted windows in Printing House Square might have been pardoned for imagining he saw the whole edifice down on its haunches ready to spring." It sprang. "Times correspondents were told to take off their masks and come out into the open, bylined and vulnerable to praise and blame instead of sitting in oracular anonymity...