Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...business analysts often blame inflation on excessive wage increases won by workers. Data from the Labor Department reveal the falsity of this charge. The average worker's real, spendable income rose 5.3 per cent between 1965 and 1972--an annual average increase of 60 cents in purchasing power over a seven year period. The severe inflation of 1973 has eroded this gain, The New York Times reported, because of sharp price increases for food, fuel, and other necessities, the average person's income bought 3 per cent less in late 1973 than it did in late...
...faith in the American system, suddenly start believing that the world is haunted. Rather, they'll believe that it's haunted as much as they'll believe anything else. For what they have lost (and the news from Washington doesn't get all the credit for this--you can blame anything from cities of steel and stone and glass that frazzle the feelings of self to the modern predicament) is the sense of connection. And The Exorcist, if anything, depends for its shock upon severed connections. Heavy mechanical cutting dissociates you from the picture. Its edges don't connect...
...enough. Nixon could be neither caught nor convicted. And a lesson was that nothing in the government is what it says or appears to be. Now nobody believes that the Energy Crisis is for real, but they can't be sure, and much less are they sure who to blame for it. They can't take anything straight. And doubting generates feelings of impotence, of innocence abused. A movie which warps the world into a grand Ouija board confirms for them the world as revealed by Watergate. The mindsets are made for each other...
...would like to correct two misquotations in The Crimson's Dec. 18 report of my talk at Lowell house. Your correspondant attributed to me the following two observations: "The people blame Golda for two things: first, in sanctioning open trade and the importation of cheap Arab labor along the west bank she has encouraged exploitation of the workers, he said." I never said this. "Secondly, by continuing in power, she has also made possible the continuation of that stance which led us to the October war. The people are afraid of what seems to be a 'hard-line' stance...
...hell, I knocked...No answer. I knocked again and still no answer. This relaxed me. I knocked again nine or ten times just to make sure no one was in there hiding under a desk or something. Still no answer. I felt better. After all, the kid couldn't blame me if Tom Sanders wasn't there...