Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scenes with Robert and his father ring true, the dialogue between Robert and Kate doesn't ring at all. The exchanges are cliched, wooden, alternately boring and unconvincing. Kate's parents are conservative, blame Robert for their daughter's "condition," and seem paralyzed by shock and Puritan indignation. As such, they are stereotypes, merely providing a field for Robert and his father to joust upon...
Scientific discoveries belong to the public as well as to science. What the public does with them is the responsibility of society as a whole. It is as absurd to blame scientists as it is to praise them for social phenomena. If we pursued that form of logic, we would find ourselves making Thomas Edison a national hero for describing the nature of electricity, and then trying him posthumously for the deaths of all people who were ever electrocuted...
...THAT ONE can blame them. Indeed, eternal mummification would seem the easy way out of Drury's world, where not a day can pass without some new crisis or disaster threatening to topple the foundations of civilization. Whether the threat comes from the subversive Russian agents of Drury's earlier works or the dangerously unbalanced religious cultists of A God Against the Gods makes little difference. All Drury's worlds are the same. No matter what the time or place, one can always be sure that his heroes will be hard at work to save the world from the dangers...
Tennint A. Tranchan '77, a student in H-entry, said the meeting should be used to "get people to accept responsibility for what goes on in their room." He added it would be "very wrong and very ineffective" to attempt to assign blame for the individual acts of destructiveness...
...affluent society grows more infantile day by day. I-want-it-now is characteristic of our bank robbers, muggers, embezzlers and kidnap-extortionists. Obey-that-impulse is a feature of rapists and murderers. Obviously no one is going to blame the credit-card industry for the upsurge of violence and criminality, but to the extent that opinion leaders endorse the philosophy of immediate, uninhibited gratification of impulse, they are helping to create the climate in which young people who cannot get credit cards demand-and seize-that same impulse gratification...