Word: blaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...individual who falls asleep in class attributes this either to his own tiredness or to the dullness of lecture, and yet were sleep to be hypnotically induced, the subject would tend to blame this on the "occult" powers of the hypnotist. In reality, what happens in hypnosis depends more on the person under hypnosis than it does on the hypnotist...
...seminaries, argued Dean Miller, must take some of the blame. Theological education has become "a vulgarized form of a trade school," failing to develop the young clergyman's intellect or make him sensitive to the heights and depths of human experience. Today's minister, warned Miller, "must be sure his mind is sharpened to its utmost, lest he blunder about the world with a rough and stupid carelessness, hoping that he might hit upon the will of God merely because of his good intentions...
Segregationists usually blame "Northern interference or the N.A.A.C.P.," but the radio-television industry carries far more responsibility. "Television spreads more rapidly among the poor than among the rich. And the classes with TV sets are getting TV's message: you should have a new car; you should be a good American and watch the Republican Convention; you should use a certain hair tonic. So the Negro in the deep South says, 'O.K., I've bought the hair tonic. Now where do I go to vote...
Trouble began when left-wing leaders of Sohyo, the General Council of Japanese Labor Unions, tried to pin the blame for the party losses on a right-wing faction accused of criticizing the Socialist campaign against the U.S. security treaty and of "opposing the description of the Socialist Party as a class party." The right-wingers, led by veteran 68-year-old Suehiro Nishio, who has the support of more than a third of the Socialist members of the lower house of the Diet, promptly walked out of the hall, agreed to return only on condition that the left wing...
Down With Blame. "I see no alternative," said Mowrer, "but to turn again to the old, painful but also promising pos sibility that man is pre-eminently a social creature, or in theological phrase, a child of God." Future treatment of the emotionally ill. suggested Mowrer, "will, like Alcoholics Anonymous, take guilt, confession and expiation seriously and will involve programs of action rather than mere groping for 'insight...