Word: blame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basic inability of the French to govern themselves without lapsing into one of the frequent periods of violence that mark their history. "After me, the deluge," De Gaulle suggested to the French in one warning after another. Now, in spite of him, the deluge came. He could not blame it on the politicians of the past or on circumstances that were not of his making. This time the responsibility...
...agreement recently (even though it will boost some wages 46% over three years) between Rootes Motors and two unions. She also hopes to encourage companies to establish management-labor committees on productivity. Her plan has some merit: British productivity has for years been the despair of economists, who equally blame rigid labor attitudes and casual management policies for the laggard pace of modernization in industry...
...think the object of criticism ought to be the policeman. The police are caught in the middle, between those who rise up, often without any purpose in mind other than the moment's rage, and on the other side the white intellectuals who often put the blame on the police rather than on more fundamental things that are responsible for the police action--action which is often, in the existential moment, absolutely necessary. I would aim criticism at people of far greater influence, people with a lot more power and social respect and status, a lot more money and--ironically...
...past, when people went to work never knowing whether they would return home," he says, "must never be allowed to be repeated." To ensure that it is not repeated, he has purged 20,000 Stalinists from the government, including the former police chief. He has also placed the blame for past terrors on his predecessor, the late Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej-seemingly unembarrassed that Gheorghiu-Dej was long his mentor and promoter...
...John Spiegel, director of Brandeis University's Lemberg Center for the Study of Violence, approached black militancy from the opposite camp. Many municipal leaders, he reported, still deny that there is a racial problem in their respective cities. "If trouble comes, they blame it on punks, outsiders and Communists rather than on white racism and other injustices." Another group of city officials, said Dr. Spiegel, act as if they understand the problem, speak expansively about the steps they are taking, but in reality do little or nothing constructive. Spiegel calls this "the Jerry Cavanagh Phenomenon." Detroit, where Cavanagh...