Word: fault
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although their science is still in its in fancy, seismologists know that earth quakes are caused by gradual shifts of the earth's crust. As long as such movements are small and unimpeded, there is little danger of a quake. But strains inevitably build up along the fault line -the zone where the crust has moved from the rock adjacent to it. If these pressures become great enough, the crust suddenly breaks loose again, lurches violently and sends out shock waves in all directions...
that the Corporation and Joint Committee considered Stauder at fault for not actively dissuading students from participating in the University Hall takeover...
...pungent dialogue. "What do you want from us, baby?" shrieks a black homosexual to a desolated Roddy at film's end. "Whatever answers you're lookin' for, we ain't it. No matter what they tell you, baby, we ain't got rhythm." The fault of this modest and diverting enterprise is that, like Roddy himself, it can never resolve the question of black and white identities and, by attempting to combine the two, produces only an uneasy shade of gray...
...failure was hardly the fault of BOAC's U.S. marketing manager Eric Engledew, 49, a happily married father of two who conceived the idea. His strategy was simple. By tapping the lucrative American singles market, capitalizing on the now well-established computer dating craze in the U.S., and wrapping it all up into a package tour of a foreign country where the girls all speak English, BOAC could earn a bigger slice of the transatlantic air trade it has to share with American carriers...
...season's 23 new shows, one concludes that Dann's foreboding is all too true. Rarely has a season seemed so regressive. The stars are primarily safe and established, the formats are past their prime, and most of the scripts are an insult to intelligence. The fault is certainly not all Pastore's; the television industry is completely capable of hitting bottom all by itself. And if a people gets the television it deserves, the American people should be ashamed of themselves...