Word: faults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Defending his character before about 40 citizens last night, Cambridge mayor angrily said it was not his fault that he was overpaid more than $30,000 from the city during the last three years...
Whereas the other personae have their own particular voices, expressions, and mannerisms, the narrator appears somewhat lack. luster and awkward in comparison. Brown resorts to inexplicable stylized poses and gestures that do not project any distinct personality. But again, this weakness in the play seems to be a fault inherent in The Importance of Being Oscar. For the most part, Brown successfully carries the over-whelming burden of presenting an entire play...
...former President in the lair of "thugs," declaring them to be men of honor and denouncing his own country's policy as shameful? It's tempting to focus on Jimmy Carter. We don't encounter him much these days. But that queasy feeling isn't all Carter's fault. It arises from the current President's breathtaking presumption that what is said with deep sincerity one day may be repealed with equal vigor the next. In the case of Haiti, the demonized dictators overnight became "de facto leaders." The diplomacy said to be exhausted when the President readied the nation...
Such a conversation could have been reality, but then the '60s vision met the 1990s. There are more people in the world now, so everyone wants their space. It was nobody's fault, really. The spirit of separatism just kind of rose up and took over, and soon roughly 90 faculty members in the humanities were lobbying a professional consultant hired by the administration (after all, who has time anymore to talk directly to the people who work for you?) for bigger offices...
PBHA's refusal to impeach Nero is a sad commentary on its own responsibility and ethics. They did ultimately vote to enact a new vehicle policy which would decertify any drivers found at fault in an accident while driving a PBHA van since last January. Ironically, the list of the decertified includes four members of the Associated Board of Directors, including Nero and Vehicles Coordinator Gene...