Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carlton Fisk, Boston's star-crossed catcher, is back again-and a great hometown favorite because of his New Hampshire background (sometimes the hometown is no favorite of his-the other day he gave the finger to booing fans, but who can blame him? The press can and did, actually). Fisk was Rookie of the Year in 1972, but a groin injury, a viciously torn cartilage and a broken arm have kept him in the game sporadically until a few weeks ago. Since then he's been terrific, but every time a runner comes hustling home with spikes high...
Frustrated, many Democrats blame their leaders for the party's ineffectiveness in the House. According to a recent Washington Post survey, slightly fewer than half of the House Democrats are now satisfied with Albert and Majority Leader Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill. The survey found more discontent among veteran Democrats than among the 75 freshmen (54% of the veterans v. 49% of the freshmen were dissatisfied). But the senior members have tended to support the leadership in public, while the first-termers have voiced their complaints and even talked of trying to dump Albert as Speaker-a move that...
Levitas is less willing than many of his classmates to put the blame for Congress's failures on the shoulders of the Democratic leadership, but even he criticizes the top echelons for not heeding the advice of their troops. "One of my children could have told them that the 23? gas tax would be beaten 4 to 1," he says. "Leadership was told there was no way, but it wouldn't listen...
Sooner or later, however, governments must act to curb inflation?and risk recession?by curtailing spending and restricting the growth of money supply. Many economists indeed blame all post-World War II recessions on overly zealous anti-inflationary policy. But that criticism obscures a vital point. In a society that operates by private decision-making rather than central command, governments must make difficult judgments on the exact mix of tax, spending and money-supply policies needed to nudge businessmen and consumers into the "right" decisions on how much to buy, build and borrow. Inevitably, the fallible humans who run treasury...
Julie herself is as shallow as she is transparent, and Alvarez seems uneasily aware of it. He is continually describing her as "thin," "pale," "delicate," "Incorporeal" as if he would like to blame her when she fails to come off the page as a fully fleshed-out human being. She seems thin, he is trying to say, but there is really something to her. It doesn't work. In this book we can be sure that anything we don't know, Alvarez doesn't know either...