Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government blames the guerrillas for every atrocity; the guerrillas blame the Rhodesian army's Selous Scouts, an elite mixed-race tracking unit whose members occasionally masquerade as guerrillas to test villagers' loyalties. Belingwe villagers are convinced, whatever the truth, that government forces last May killed the reserve's only black doctor, who had previously been warned against giving medicine to guerrillas. The government firmly insists that he was murdered by the "ters" (terrorists...
...blame belongs to Harris, not the show's talented cast. For all the trouble this writer has taken to reproduce Mary Hartman's formula, she has left out its essential ingredient-compassion. Mary Hartman presented its admittedly loony characters with such affection that audiences cared about them and even identified with their failings. Soap contemptuously presents its people as either stupid or conniving or cruel or some hybrid thereof. With so many unpleasant cartoon figures on the screen, Soap's potentially affecting sexual shenanigans devolve into mean-spirited locker-room jokes. It is not Soap...
...Hitler period altogether or raced through it. Said one youth after seeing the movie: "Now I can understand why something like that was possible. In school we studied history only up to World War I." In a recent poll conducted by the illustrated weekly Quick, a majority placed the blame for the war, the extermination of the Jews and the stifling of dissent during the Third Reich on Hitler, but only about 20% condemned his policies totally. Significantly, more than two-thirds wanted additional information about the man and his times. Says Michael Tummler, 24, a political science student...
...Unhappy parents of some of the Children of God have formed organizations to combat the cult and have called in help from various professional "deprogrammers." The Children blame unspecified "enemies" for the death of at least one disciple, whose nude body, with several internal organs crushed, was found last year at a medieval fortress in Belgium. Opponents suspect the sect itself, and police have never solved the case. Moses David's son Paul died under similar circumstances in Switzerland...
...acquaintance Richard provides the cynic's stereotype of an inevitably cold and ambitious road to success, it is Nixon himself who becomes a target for the blame. Mee doesn't claim that Nixon personally brought down the republic, of course, noting that it had fallen long before, but Nixon becomes a focus of his disappointment in a string of broken presidential promises that stretch back at least through Johnson's administration...