Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Presidents must stop proving their manhood by barging into crowds of strangers or strolling within gunshot range of waiting spectators. The press must cease providing crazies with a podium for instant notoriety. Better ways must be found to protect the President. Somebody, if not all Americans, must bear the blame...
...much responsibility does Hirohito bear for Japan's entry into World War II? Hearing of pending war crimes trials, he once went to General MacArthur to plead that he alone should bear the blame for every act of war. More realistically, Hirohito reminds questioners these days that even in his prewar era of official divinity, he was a monarch hemmed in by a constitution, not to mention the military leaders who came to power in Japan after 1931. Even so, writes Author Frank Gibney in The Fragile Super Power (TIME, April 21), "He served as a symbol of militarism...
...great rock'n roll is distorted Springsteen's gutsy music. Actually, however, there is no significant stylistic difference between the title song (the only one without Landau) and the four other hot-rod rockers on the album. After all, Bruce Springsteen wrote and arranged and co-produced the album; blame for inconsistency and tightness goes...
This past weekend the Baltimore Orioles lost any hope for the American League pennant with a double dip to the New York Yankees in Shea Stadium. The stolid people of Baltimore, who have always counted on their team's stretch drive to victory, probably blame their failure on the collapse in New York. The sanguine fans of Boston probably ascribe the Orioles' downfall to a two-game series in the beginning of September, when the Red Sox smoked the Orioles twice in Baltimore...
...example, contains more than two dozen references to the proposals made by the U.S. at the start of the session (TIME, Sept. 15), and it also draws heavily from the recommendations of recent Third World conferences. Moreover, it omits most of the accusatory rhetoric that so often placed the blame on the West for the problems of the developing states...