Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Liberal explanations of Watergate have never gotten down to causes. Some blame Nixon's arrogance; some conjure up generalizations about national psychology. The most bizarre reasoning of all passes Watergate off as a one-of-a-kind right-wing crime whose exposure somehow vindicates the liberal system of justice...
Still, the prospect now is for some increase in frequency, if only because Nixon seems to think that the time is ripe to challenge the press's credibility again. In both recent conferences, he repeatedly needled the news media, implying that journalists were to blame for some, if not all, of his troubles. His cracks have developed a pattern; he gets across the idea that journalists are beastly by saying that they are entitled to be so. Last week, when asked about public confidence in him, he put part of the blame on four months of prime-time "leers...
...mindlessly to youth, accepting uncritically an alteration of values, or to develop a siege mentality and fear and resent one's own children. It was all too easy, depending on one's point of view, to hold youth responsible for what was good in society or to blame it for what was bad. In this way, one could avoid the complexities and ambiguities of a genuine analysis of American life. Historian Eric Goldman expects the 1970s to be a "period of re-emerging consensus, when the young will not be so critical of the old and when...
...being raised by an excess of demand. As I see it, the meat crisis is the result of comprehensive mismanagement by the Nixon administration. It is still to be corrected by the former dean of the Harvard faculty....Crops have been bad this year, but no one should blame anything on God as long as you have the Nixon administration." --John Kenneth Galbraith, one of several economists commenting on the meat crisis...
Drugs share part of the blame for the project's problems. Many observers hold junkies responsible for much of the development's crime and vandalism. One resident claimed to know "four or five families" in the high-rise who "make their living selling the stuff...