Word: blame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...power over Barenboim's decisions. "I have absolutely no interest in artistic control of the new opera," he told TIME. Nonetheless, he argues that Barenboim's choice of classic works is "elitist." Says he: "The program established by Barenboim . . . satisfies neither President Mitterrand nor me." But he puts considerable blame for the furor on the maestro's exalted pay: "I offered Barenboim a salary of 4 million francs (($667,000)), but he would not accept anything less than 5 million...
Obviously the blame for the decrease in science concentrators should not fall entirely on Harvard's science departments. The allure of business and law, the fear of the socialization of medicine and other concerns have sucked students away from the sciences. Even so, Harvard's science departments ought to compensate by modifying the structure of their concentrations. The necessary changes are within their reach...
...raise, nonetheless, is nearly certain to be adopted without a real debate. Unwilling to risk the wrath of their constituents by arguing publicly for salary hikes, lawmakers in 1967 devised a means of getting more money while ducking the blame. They established a Commission on Executive, Legislative and Judicial Salaries to review federal pay scales every four years...
...briefcases and business suits, bigotry and prejudice are making a comeback. Underlying this ugly renaissance is a change in the nation's political climate from the idealism that spawned the civil rights movement in the 1960s to the me-first ethic that has flourished in the '80s. Many educators blame recent outbreaks of campus bigotry on the fact that today's students are largely ignorant about past struggles for racial, sexual and economic equality. "We failed to help our children learn the lessons we learned," says Mary Maples Dunn, president of Smith College in Northampton, Mass. "We thought...
...when the social gains of those years were under attack. "They have been raised in an era when equal opportunity has been questioned," says Albert Camarillo, chairman of a Stanford University committee on minority concerns. "They have heard people ask if we have done too much for minorities." Others blame the Reagan Administration's lax enforcement of civil rights laws for making prejudice socially acceptable. "The Reagan years provided a context that made people feel more comfortable expressing intolerance," says John S. Wilson, assistant director of corporate development at M.I.T...