Word: blame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...official admitted, "but psychologically the experience has been catastrophic. When the U.S. arrived here it had a chance to show how workers are treated back in America. Instead, it sat back and let a French contracting company run the show. The workers, seeing the American flag, put all the blame on the Americans...
...Roman Catholic journalist and author (Stranger in the Earth, Watch for the Morning)-is upset by discord between Catholics and Protestants. Unlike most Catholics who launch into print on the subject, he thinks that his own church-particularly the church in the U.S.-deserves a good deal of the blame. Author Sugrue's complaint, in the Protestant Christian Herald: the church is mixing in affairs of state and it has no business there. It began to go wrong when Christ's teachings about spiritual authority in man's subjective "inner world" began to be extended...
What is stopping the diggers? Each nation has its own explanation. Britain is short of labor: nothing the nationalized coal industry has done (e.g., higher wages, social security) can induce more Britons to work in the pits. Full employment is partly to blame: coal miners' sons don't want to work underground when there are safer, cleaner jobs above...
Juvenile delinquency is high. Officials blame it largely on the fact that jobs are easy to get. A 17-year-old is likely to make 500 kroner a month ($96.50) and has money to burn on drink and excitement. Most of the juvenile crimes are thefts of cars and motorcycles, done for the hell...
Progress & Poison. To the psychologist, says Sir Walter, the proper approach to the delinquent is "therapeutic rather than juridical; the offender is to be regarded as a sick man to be healed rather than as a malefactor to be chastised . . . Ultimately then, all praise and blame are irrational." Bernard Shaw put the moral, says Sir Walter, when he once suggested that a man should no more be punished for having an inefficient conscience than for having an inefficient lung...