Word: blame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desire to put your enemy in the wrong or even to damage his reputation blame him for the very vice which you feel in yourself...
...read with interest your reprint from The Dartmouth and accompanying editorial. However, I must take issue with your feeble reply. While it is useless to attempt to "blame" anyone for this current trend in American thinking, the colleges certainly bring no credit on themselves by submitting to the trend without a protest. As Professor Handlin pointed out in his Atlantic Monthly article, the youth of this country has formed the core of every progressive movement, and it is a discouraging symptom when we submit so readily to the complacency of our elders. A few voices in protest--though they have...
Army, on the other hand, can not blame its trouble on extended injuries. The Cadets, mostly juniors, just don't seem to be able to score. They've totalled only 18 goals and their leading scorer, football quarterback Bab Blaik, has nine of these. Captain Bill Depew has seven, and the rest of the team only three...
...hardly fair to blame colleges in general, or Dartmouth in particular, for the triumph of Suburbia or the possibility of World War III. Colleges are symptoms and victims of a cosmic disease, and they cannot be cured by injections of radical hormones. World affairs are pushing college education around these days, and it may be a long time before ideals can turn the tables...
...wrong ... [It was] a sheer misuse of U.N. to take advantage of the absence of the Russians from the Security Council and of the presence of the wrong Chinese government . . . When the American forces, dragging us with them, advanced right to the Manchurian frontier, I was quite unable to blame the Chinese for intervening . . ." Cole's conclusion: "If Great Britain gets dragged into war with China by the Americans, I shall be on the side of China...