Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite these problems, Wilson's writings and theories have a wide audience. His guarded academic prose masks personal biases in books written for the layman as well as the expert. His theories soothe middle class fears and absolve politicians of blame for inaction. He castigates liberals and even criticizes some reactionaries, but he is one Harvard professor who sells in Peoria...
...which it has been since it convened at the end of October. All that seems to be keeping the conference alive is a reluctance by Smith and Rhodesia's four black nationalist leaders-Joshua Nkomo, Robert Mugabe, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole-to bear the blame for torpedoing Rhodesia's last real hope of avoiding a bloody civil...
Western bankers agree that Mobutu is not entirely to blame for the country's troubles. Some fault themselves for being too eager to lend to the unsophisticated nation in the expectation of high returns. Says one Western banker: "What was needed here earlier in the '70s was a guy in a green eyeshade saying 'Wait a minute.' Mobutu didn't know he was in trouble. Western institutions weren't telling him he was getting into trouble. Mobutu has learned a lesson, but the West has too-not to come into a country like...
...would appear that once again the blame for the mainstage's mediocrity must fall on the choice of the script. The case of Scapino is certainly talented; why such a difficult project was picked remains a mystery. Liz breaks up with Dick, Harvard loses to Yale and the chicken crosses the road. Today the Harvard Dramatic Club chooses its spring productions; it is hoped that their decisions on next year's slots are better tailored to the strengths and weaknesses of student actors...
Even if Gilmore lives, all of American society must accept the blame for the life he has led. Gary Gilmore's death-wish was bred by the despair of a society that has allowed him little chance to life within the law. Now 35 years old, Gilmore has spent 18 of the last 21 years in prison having been first incarcerated at the age of 14. In a society where convicts receive little rehabilitative training, and ex-convicts receive no consideration from potential employers, Gilmore has had no alternative but to follow his life of crime to its seemingly inevitable...