Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reluctant to place some blame for the frightening "Crime Boom" [April 14] on the electronic devices inn all of our homes? If TV can make us buy a certain brand of deodorant and teach our children to count to 10 before age three, why can it not also be "programming" our youngsters to commit crimes of violence...
Georgia Tech, California's ex-Governor Ronald Reagan drew cheers when he blamed "the most irresponsible Congress in our history" for the collapse in Viet Nam. A bitter editorial in the conservative Indianapolis Star declared: "After the Americans of a braver generation destroyed the Nazis and the horrors of concentration camps became known, pictures of the atrocities were published all over Germany with the caption Wessen Schuld??'Who is to blame?' The same question applies today." Such rhetoric raised the question of whether Viet Nam might become a campaign issue in 1976. For Republicans to blame a Democratic Congress...
Presumably, British Director Trevor Nunn must shoulder part of the blame. If he were a line officer in charge of combat troops-and the responsibilities of a stage director are somewhat similar-he would be stripped of his rank and summarily cashiered...
Such a response is unacceptable, both because it is reprehensible to destroy a country and then blame it for the destruction and because it is calculated to enable officials to sucker the ordinary Americans who pay for their plans--55,000 of them paid with their lives, in Indochina--into paying for similar plans again, somewhere else...
...Connors learned well. "No one's ever given me anything on the court," he says. "Maybe that's one reason I prefer singles. It's just me and you. When I win, I don't have to congratulate anyone. When I lose, I don't have to blame anyone...