Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eastern European descent appealed to the conscience of the free world, they were met with a conspiracy of silence. In many cases those anti-Communists were greeted by the self-styled liberal circles with open hostility. It is an amazing fact that our liberal papers and TV networks, which blame President Richard M. Nixon for covering up the Watergate affair, have studiously refrained themselves from informing the general public about the Communist rule in Eastern Europe...
...Americans are falling back on a devil theory of sorts, or at least some sinister force, to explain the nation's problems, or simply personalizing problems with a vengeance. Vanderbilt Chancellor Alexander Heard notes: "Devils are being found in the oil companies, the presidency and others to whom blame can be assigned...
Vermont ski executives blame their troubles as much on a fairly snowless winter as on the gasoline crunch. Yet in western Massachusetts, which was covered with snow last week, the slopes are still underpopulated. Said Ted Trombley as he surveyed the empty parking lot of his Yankee Motor Lodge near Pittsfield: "Up until now we could blame the weather. But with this gorgeous weekend we just had, we're still off 50%, so we know the problem...
...political mood of Washington as one of confusion and fear. "Every Republican is scared to death that if Watergate doesn't get him, the economy will," he said. "And the Democrats are afraid that the atmosphere will become charged with the idea that anyone in office is to blame for what is going...
...pretense and profundity is gathering like rainclouds and that if one person in the audience giggled, the entire place, actors and all, would explode in laughter. A friend of mine who hates Ingmar Bergman says the same thing would be true of his films if the audience couldn't blame the stiffness of the dialogue on the subtitles. So a stage production of Persona, Bergman's 1966 film about the attempt of one woman, Elisabeth, to impose her identity upon another, Alma, starts out with two strikes against...