Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...underlying animus to his writing. In books, as a rule, he caught the dying glow of the upper classes in the softening mirror of decent, fair-minded characters. Brideshead Revisited, his greatest novel, is elegiac, but not vindictive. Outside of fiction, though, Waugh was quick to place the blame where he thought it belonged...
HUSSAINI: It is a historical inaccuracy to blame the suffering of the Palestinians on the Arab states. It is a fact that the Palestinian people belong to the lands of Palestine, the territory that was put under British rule in the early 1920s. There was fighting in Palestine, and many Palestinians left their homes as Jewish military forces were moving into these towns and villages...
...that you didn't take much interest in people you regarded as the spoiled darlings of fortune?" It is not an altogether convincing conclusion to a ferocious little volume. Perhaps the only real justification for the book is the admirable short story that runs alongside the litany of blame. To give away the truly surprise ending-revealed in what are apparently Henriette's last words-would be unfair, but it has to do with the man who gave her what she always wanted, a pension...
...difficult to blame only Harvard for the dearth of graduates who go out and dedicate their lives to eradicating social injustice, redistributing social benefits more equitably, and championing the cause of the "ordinary" citizen. Take, for example, a recent study by the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning. It indicates that almost the exact same numbers of students in any given class say at graduation that they will enter various occupations as when the class entered. So, while the Harvard educational process may influence individuals in a class, it does not appear to alter the eventual occupational distribution...
...biggest venture yet in economic planning to a ministerial committee on which the Socialists were not to be represented. The Socialists, in effect, complained that the Christian Democrats and the Communists had a tacit arrangement to run the country, which nevertheless allowed the Communists to avoid any responsibility or blame for things that might go wrong...