Word: blaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anticipating the rough-and-tumble days ahead, Arizona's Barry Goldwater last week threw a roundhouse punch. The U.S. has indeed gone "soft," said the stalwart of the G.O.P. Old Guard, but the blame rests with "Senator John Kennedy and his fellow Democratic lawmakers. These people in the last 30 years have made us soft because of an abundance of federal controls, federal spending and unnecessary foreign entanglements...
...Times's TV Critic Jack Gould (see PRESS) quoted unidentified network executives who accused almost all TV writers of being "junketeers," i.e., free loading travelers who let networks, ad agencies or sponsors pick up the tab for a trip. And as if to divest itself of any further blame for thus "corrupting" the press, NBC canceled a January junket that had been organized to take 80 reporters to the West Coast...
...parents are not to blame for his plight...
Does this mean that, as in popular fiction, the parents are guilty? Emphatically not, says Bergler. "No parent-not even the parent who directed the affairs of the nursery foolishly-has the power to induce neurosis in his children." (But many a parent wants to assume the blame, because every parent also has some masochism...
...general view that part of money's tightness-and the highest interest rates (5% and up) in 28 years-is the result of demand for credit spawned by the strong upsurge of the new boom. But it is also the result of fumbled fiscal policy. Who is to blame for that? Says Alexander: "The Administration's policy is good, and the Treasury is doing all it can.'' The real villain, he says, is Congress. It has refused to raise the 47% ceiling rate on long-term Treasury bonds, thus forced the Treasury to do its financing...