Word: blame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last Friday, the BRA defended its controversial project as a means of stopping Harvard from buying up the land and turning it into a soccer field. "When Boston politicians and public authorities get in trouble, they like to throw the blame on Harvard," William H. Stiles of the News Office said last night. "The University makes an ideal scapegoat," he added...
...invasion. The night we got notice of the tragic defeat I could sense what you point out: "It was a chance, perhaps never to return, to dispose of the single Communist regime in the Western Hemisphere." The late President had several really amateur advisers. I don't blame either the Pentagon or the CIA. I blame the naive counselors like Schlesinger for the fateful mistake that has kept my country under Soviet rule...
...game Frigid Woman, and warns against the conclusion that its outcome is all Mrs. Husband's fault. Chances are that her spouse deliberately, if unconsciously, chose just such an unobliging mate-"to minimize the danger," as Berne puts it, "of overtaxing his disturbed potency, which he can now blame on her." Another game is called Uproar, and while it is most commonly played by married couples anxious to avoid sexual intimacy, it is also played, on other occasions and for other reasons, by all mankind...
Both memoirists assign to Kennedy what Sorensen calls "many and serious mistakes." Both admire Kennedy's insistence on bearing the public blame for the fiasco. Sorensen recalls how Kennedy told a news conference the obvious fact that he was "the responsible officer of government," after remarking ruefully: "Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan." Yet Sorensen also remembers how, while walking in the White House garden the same day, Kennedy "told me, at times in caustic tones, of some of the other fathers of defeat who had let him down." The "fathers" were the new President...
...Fortunately," went the lead editorial in the Washington Post, "there is no disposition in this country to search for scapegoats to blame for the situation [in Viet Nam]. Americans are singularly free from the disposition to vent a sanguinary fury on officials who have the misfortune to preside at disagreeable affairs . . ." Pondering this thought in his Georgetown home, Dean Acheson, 72, allowed as how it was not always thus. Perhaps recalling several brushes with Senator Joe McCarthy as well as his Secretary of Stateship during the Korean War, Acheson displayed his precise literary style in a twelve-line poem...