Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Adrienne is not one to discriminate unfairly herself, or to make bitter distinctions between men and women. Instead, she feels that society as a whole is to blame for unhappy conditions. She speaks frequently of "the women in every man." To clarify the meaning of this idea she says, "I'm talking about a part of man that gets denied in his trying to fit a male stereotype. It's a quality that makes a person capable of being tender, of showing emotion, being able to communicate openly, to have respect for other human beings as people rather than objects...
Pusey adapted well to the Harvard of the fifties, and he must be given credit (or blame) for Harvard's golden age of expansion. James Byrant Conant set up General Education, but Nathan Pusey implemented it, and brought it to every corner of every geographical nook and cranny in the United States...
...lion's share of the blame for the Press's problems can be attributed to the less-than-firm hold that then-director Carroll had on the controls of the operation. And to compound the problem, Carroll and Hall--the man who supervises the administration of the Press along with ten other service organizations--had real conflicts in philosophy and personality. "We couldn't get on common philosophical wavelengths," Hall said repeatedly after Carroll's dismissal. And as the antagonism that existed between the two men grew worse and worse the inevitability that one of them would have...
This year Secretariat has won four races out of five. At the 1⅛-mile Wood Memorial at Aqueduct in late April, he ran third, behind Angle Light and Sham. Nobody will ever be sure what went wrong that day. Turcotte is inclined to blame himself. Giving the horse his final speed work four days before the race, Turcotte sent him a mile in 1.42%. A fair workout for most horses-but a heavy eater like Secretariat needs to extend himself between races to keep in top condition, and it might have been better if they had gone faster...
...television address, Nixon accepts responsibility but not the basic blame. The stance is that of a boss gallantly doing his executive duty, while pointing to his subordinate...