Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foreign survivors were obviously of two minds. One Western doctor suggested that the Communists had evacuated the hospitals because "they could not cope with all the patients-they do not have the doctors-so they apparently decided to throw them all out and blame any deaths on the old regime." Another foreign observer called the exodus "pure and simple genocide. They will kill more people this way than if there had been hand-to-hand fighting in the city...
...wouldn't believe the degree of non-assertiveness we've found at the start of our classes: divorced women who continue to do their ex-husbands' laundry, fearing that they will lose their support money if they refuse; wives who sit quietly while their husbands blame recessionary business slumps directly on them." In one of the many new books on the subject, The Assertive Woman (Impact), Phelps and Co-Teacher Nancy Austin note that women are victims of the "compassion trap"-the need to serve others and provide tenderness and compassion at all times...
What is unsettling about The Family Line is that we are never quite sure who is to blame. Throughout the play we receive two conflicting messages. The man has been beaten, unjustly deprived of the success to which he had a rightful claim. Here the inequities of this society are clearly to blame. And yet because Brad is so brutal in his treatment of his wife, so selfish in his needs. Wallowing in such endless self-pity, the message that comes through even stronger is: pull yourself together, man. Go back to college and get yourself out of the plant...
...article "For Faculty It's Still Old Mood on Campus" left me, enraged. I'll try to explain why. In general it seemed to me that faculty members interviewed recognized the same problems (in faculty-student relations) that students do but that many tried to shift the blame to students in unfair ways...
...learned is that there aren't American answers for every problem in the world. We made judgments about that part of the world based on our experience in Europe. We were a world power with a half-world knowledge. It's clear that there's blame enough for all of us. I include myself...