Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ready to blame the S.L.A. for the transformation of Patty Hearst from socialite liberal to violent radical within a few short weeks, then society cannot escape its responsibility for the creation of the S.L.A. Not only do the deplorable social conditions that spawn this kind of group continue to exist, but now, I fear, it is only a matter of time until we will be humming The Ballad of Cinque over our morning coffee...
...payments to the original Watergate defendants. Colson promptly warned the President that these payoffs were taking place. Nixon's alleged reply: "What do you mean? Mitchell says he is innocent." Colson claims that he then told Chief of Staff Haldeman that Mitchell must step forward and take the blame for the payoffs. According to Colson, Haldeman answered: "If Mitchell goes, he's going to take you with him." Colson said he was not worried about that. He asserts that he also warned Ehrlichman and Dean about the cover-up -and got unconcerned responses...
...black loses his job and his status, he cannot take refuge in some of the traditional rationalizations. He knows that he does not have the excuse that he was given no opportunity. "As long as you can blame your failures on somebody else, there is a self-regulating system," says a black social psychologist in New York. Without that system, the black man who fails may give way to rage. Belligerence may serve as a cover-up for failure...
...altogether clear who is to blame for Harvard's poor showing in the equal opportunity employment field. Leonard claims, with some substantiation, that there is significant resistance in the individual departments to affirmative action. If that is indeed the case, then it is incumbent on Bok to exercise some moral leadership and turn the tide around. This is, as much as anything else, a question of morality and of a commitment to social equality. In an institution where liberal principles are preached so freely, there has been a dismal failure of its leaders to face up to their moral obligations...
Fogel and Engerman blame it on the racism of most Americans, an often unconscious racism that makes them take black people's weakness for granted and restrict themselves to trying to explain it as an inborn quality or, for the more liberal, as a consequence of oppression. In their epilogue, Fogel and Engerman say they wrote Time on the Cross to attack this view and to show that even under slavery, black people were among the most accomplished and admirable people in the United States, "to strike down the view that black Americans were without culture, without achievement, and without...