Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...self-contained and too far removed from real-life economics, neither Otto Eckstein and his squad of sectionmen is to blame. No one can understand the American economy without some sense of the history of business and labor, the sociology of American class structure, or the psychological effects of industrialization and resistance to it. History, sociology, psychology, economics--they are all tools to be used toward the same goal, but Harvard treats them as separate subjects...
Even more importantly Moynihan has challenged the attempt by third world dictators to blame their domestic problems on the American people--a key strategy by which these despots seek to maintain power. In the past thirty years, third world left-wing dictatorships, often secured by military coup, have established heavily collectivized economies, made torture, censorship, and political oppression a part of everyday life, and virtually banished democracy and respect for individual rights. One result of this has been failing economies crushed under the weight of totalitarian socialism. Another has been political unrest generated by economic disaster and political oppression...
...thought the refs stunk," Meyers said after the game, "but I don't want to blame it all on them...
Indeed it has. For all practical purposes, Bayh is close to insolvency. For that he can blame the finance law-and himself. He badly miscalculated the impact of the legislation, particularly the $1,000 limit, though he had supported the reform. Not until December did he hold his first formal fund raiser, long after the other candidates had started collecting money...
Waugh's politics, though, were never serious enough to earn him much praise or blame. "In politics," Sykes comments, "he was without loyalties, and had only dislikes." And his snobbishness had its limits--it stopped where the person in question, of howsoever impeccable a pedigree, was dull...