Word: blaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vastness of the gap between the envisioned tomorrow, and the actual today, Brazilians sometimes blame nature: the rugged mountain ranges that block the seaboard from the interior, the tropical heat that saps men's energy in the coastal cities, including Rio. Racists (rare but not unknown in tolerant Brazil) put the blame on Brazil's racial potpourri. (It was 62% white, 27% brown and 11% black by the 1950 census, but a majority of Brazilian whites have at least a trace of Indian or Negro blood.) Often Brazilians blame the nation's Portuguese colonial masters. Complains...
...pages. Barbara O'Neil's portrayal of the intriguing Serena Merle, ineptly introduced by Archibald, is a major disappointment. While she sails imposingly about the stage, she evokes less "the wisest woman in the world" than the grande dame of Kansas City. Director Jose Quintero, however, must take the blame for allowing one outrageous failure. As Isabel's uncle, Halliwell Hobbes does a prolonged parody of Lionel Barrymore and exits with the rending cackle of a road-show Silas Marner...
...finally shut it off," he said afterwards, "because I didn't want to get the blame for it. If you ask me, the thing is always breaking down. "It's a plain headache." Weiss is a research assistant at the cyclotron laboratory and a graduate student in nuclear physics...
After apportioning the blame impartially among the book, score, and cast, the playgoer can relax for a minute and recall the dancing. Don Driver and Diana Drake are no Champion, but do belong on the stage. When On With the Show moves at all, it is on their feet...
Since then the University has compiled a long list of false alarms, wasted fire extinguishers, and genuine fires. The most recent hot house was the Calverly blaze which began late one Sunday morning in 1855 to find it clouded March night in 1951. A cigarette got the blame for $65,000 worth of damage. Before the days of the infernal weed, flying sparks and gas fumes were the cause of most of the fires in undergraduate rooms...