Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attribute their successes to luck; even when highly competent, they doubt themselves and spend much time on self-improvement. Men-those who become top executives anyway-assume they are competent and set out to see that somebody important realizes it. Women play it safe, wait to be recognized, then blame themselves when they are not rewarded-rather than raising the corporate equivalent of the athlete's cry: "Play me or trade...
...there are unforgiving moments in which he is poised between forces that can sweep him on to greater favor and achievement or leave him a titleholder of little consequence. John Kennedy faced such a time at the Bay of Pigs only three months into his term. He shouldered the blame, wresting admiration finally from a dreadful mistake. In the fall and winter of 1965, Lyndon Johnson, enervated by his gallbladder removal, beset by the rising horror of Viet Nam, let himself be guided by his melancholy nature into the deception and self-pity that eventually forced his retreat to Texas...
...Gielgud's bastard son, is on good terms with them both. Bogarde remains a seeker after moral language, but the hatred he supposedly bears his father as a result of his mother's death looms largely as a projection of Gielgud's own moral discomfort. "I don't blame you," Bogarde says to his father in reference to the suicide...
That's all fine and good. Given what professors are making these days, I really can't blame Dawkins for trying to make a little on the side. But when you read this book, you realize that Dawkins wants his book to sell. Dawkins tries to make his book fascinating, and in that effort, he distorts the truth...
...women who need to be told that being a housewife is a worthy occupation, but men. It is very convenient for people to blame feminism for the low status housewives have and feel, but the phrase "just a housewife" was not invented by women's liberation-it has been in use for a long time. Many men want their wives to stay home and then resent them for doing...