Word: blame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also feels that some of the great liberals who are under attack are themselves much to blame for their plight. They ignore the Right and in some cases make alliances with it. "They spend so much time trying to prove that they are not communists, when they could be taking a militant stand against all the extremes...
Young people do not feel cheated. And they do not blame anyone. Before this generation, "they" were always to blame. It was a standard prewar feeling that "they" had let them down. But this generation puts the blame on life as a whole, not on parents, politicians, cartels, etc. The fact of this world is war, uncertainty, the need for work, courage, sacrifice. Nobody likes that fact. But youth does not blame that fact on its parents dropping the ball. In real life, youth seems to know, people always drop the ball. Youth today has little cynicism, because it never...
Many students and teachers blame this lack of conviction on fear-the fear of being tagged "subversive." Today's generation, either through fear, passivity or conviction, is ready to conform...
...whose library record he had checked up on: Ohio's Rutherford B. Hayes, 19 President of the U.S., who signed out 36 outside books a year during his four years at Kenyon College (1838-42). ¶Said Harold Taylor, president of Sarah Lawrence College: "I don't blame youth for its present moral confusion as much as I do its elders and educators. There does exist a moral idealism and intellectualism in youth which is waiting to be brought out, but the colleges are not doing...
There are two "Americans" involved in the story. Played by Martin Rudy and Hildy Parks, they are rather sad caricatures of a big Texan and a flamboyant millionairess; the blame for this however, must go to author Roger McDougall who seems to have gotten the impression that all Americans mix Coca Cola with their scotch...