Word: blame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result, he said, of being "well-meaning and devoted." The failure of Berkeley officials to present the real cause and standing of the 1964 Free Speech Movement was one instance he mentioned. Lang said that national newspapers had misrepresented the Movement's structure by claiming communist influence. "The blame," he stated, "must be on the administrators who allowed that to occur...
Keep Out of Our Way. Kennan thoroughly demolishes the argument, put forward by a growing school of New-Leftist "revisionists," that the U.S., not Russia, was to blame for the cold war. When the Red army stopped at the Vistula River in 1944 and folded its arms while the Nazis bloodily put down the Warsaw uprising, and when Stalin refused to allow the U.S. even to airlift supplies to the dying Polish Resistance, it was obvious, says Kennan, that Stalin meant to swallow Poland, "lock, stock and barrel...
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...unfortunate that the more moderate resolution was not given greater consideration. By "withholding" rather than denying endorsement, it--in effect--would have extended an invitation to the administration for further discussion of the pros and cons of such a committee. But it is hard to blame those who felt that an invitation would not produce results. Mrs. Bunting claims that RPC is only one answer and that she will welcome any others. The Ad Hoc Committee, however, which was set up to look into just this problem, is now no longer considered an official committee. The five administration representatives appointed...
...proved with the Flint films, Coburn can cut a wide peel from some mighty small potatoes. But this enterprise makes him seem less a star than a character actor who needs smaller roles in order to regain his comic stature. In part, the blame may lie with a bland, spiritless script that fancies itself original in lampooning western cliches, yet has the temerity to steal Jack Benny's most famous joke: "Your money or your life." Pause. "Well?" "I'm thinking." Theft and rape may sometimes be forgivable; plagiarism never...