Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hearts, our minds and our actions are no longer so closely linked as they were. Much of the blame must go to the Nixon Administration. At no time in history had the aims of the White House been so consistently alien to the values of the people as during Nixon's reign of terror. He delivered packaged death to Vietnam and we protested; he sliced away at the programs that helped the poor, and we cried out in pain. But never had contempt for youth been so clear in such powerful places as it was during the Nixon regime; never...
When Jacqueline Nash, 24, pleaded guilty to possessing an unregistered handgun in East Cleveland, Judge James De Vinne was ready to sentence her to three days in jail. Suddenly her fiancé approached the bench. He was to blame, said Roderick Hinson. They had quarreled, and it was his pistol that she had been brandishing in the street. Well, said the judge, would Hinson be willing to serve the sentence for her? Yes, said Hinson, and after kissing and making up with Miss Nash, he went cheerfully off to jail...
...unfortunate precedent," tuttutted a Cleveland Plain Dealer editorial. Judge De Vinne admitted that he did not know whether such a ruling had ever been made before. But, he said, "I felt it was a good decision. It put blame where it belonged...
...mature, but simply to become an older virtuoso, so that all his later work risks being dismissed as an appendage to the earlier. If he accepts this role, it grips him, and he turns into a vulgar monster-something like Salvador Dali. If he fights it and reflects the blame for it on the audience (where it belongs), he may, with luck, come to resemble Robert Rauschenberg, whose latest prints-after a run at the Castelli Gallery in New York City-are on view at Gemini G.E.L. in Los Angeles...
...American Jew, gently suggested that the Israelis' belief that they can master any situation may have produced some scapegoating after the Yom Kippur War. His reasoning: if a war goes badly, a people who deeply believe their fate is in their own hands have no one to blame but their leaders. He also feels that Israelis may be employing "middle knowledge"-a term which refers to the process by which a dying person suppresses knowledge of his predicament in order to maintain hope...