Word: blame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Romney absolved Goldwater of personal blame for the 1964 convention's failure to adopt a strong civil rights plank-but at the same time damned him as an indifferent campaigner. He recalled how the G.O.P. standard-bearer had admitted to him that he, Goldwater, "read only a few sections of the platform and didn't know what amendments were being offered"-incredible as that seems. He also exonerated Goldwater of making a "deal" with Southern segregationists because "you were obviously leaving many vital things almost entirely to others...
...other issues the Church is still not speaking out loudly enough, McCarthy said. The Truth in Packaging Bill passed by Congress in the last session is too soft, he said, and part of the blame...
Modern churches and synagogues are largely to blame for this "eclipse of God," Cox continued. "They have become acolytes of the status quo, and failed to provide the painful tension between the 'not yet' and the world around them." Cox said it is this tension which is the source of religious vision. When the tension fades, God dies...
...first modern work on suicide, by French Sociologist Emile Durkheim, was published in 1897, and is still a classic. Durkheim laid the blame for suicide on the interplay between individual and society. He divided suicides into three main strains: 1) Egoistic, in which the individual is too much on his own, isolated from the community; 2) Altruistic, in which the individual is too little on his own and at the mercy of society, like the Indian wives who committed suttee by throwing themselves on their husbands' funeral pyres; 3) Anomic, in which society's controls over the individual...
...alternatives, suspecting that this is necessary for their graduate school applications, and wasting both their tutor's and their time in a rather fruitless search for a "topic" which often has little meaning for either. Admittedly, this may reflect on the tutor as much as the student, but casting blame hardly resolves the condition...