Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mice and Men is an extremely delicate play to direct and I would not totally blame Zwick for the lack of intensity displayed. Rather, I would question Steinbeck and the Loeb for thrusting onto the audience a story so intensely sensitive that almost any production could only fall short of displaying the characters Lennie and George. Perhaps Steinbeck, explained this dilemma best when he wrote of the story as "an experiment in making a play that can be read or a novel that can be played..." The play's emotion comes across in its reading, not its stage performance...
McGovern's own behavior is also very much to blame, and that fact is most damagingly symbolized by what the numerically minded Chinese would undoubtedly call "The Failure of the Double Thousands." His $1,000-per-person revenue sharing plan, first offered, then withdrawn, left him in the double jeopardy of seeming both unwise and wishy-washy, although he spiritedly argued last week that a mature leader must have the right to change his mind. Other items fell into place, leaving the impression of just another politician with his moistened finger to the wind. The purity of his stand...
...softening his own position. So he stood firm, knowing full well he was sealing the fate of his own "priority" domestic legislation. Said one Congressman: "He preferred a campaign issue to the bill." An Administration executive ruefully agreed: "The President has to share a major part of the blame...
...bureaucratic answer to almost any sticky situation is to form a committee. A committee is a useful tool to the beleaguered administrator: It diffuses criticism, it shoulders blame, and, in some lucky circumstances, it performs efficiently and well. This latter quality, in most perspectives, in the crucial ingredient which traverses the chasm between the ceremonial and the purposeful...
Moreover, the formation of this subcommittee reduces the number of persons making the hardline decisions on stocks and proxies. Previously, Bok, the Treasurer and all five Corporation members shared the decision burden. Now only four viewpoints are involved. The subcommittee will diffuse criticism, shoulder blame and no doubt be efficient. How well it performs depends largely on how readily its members can overcome the inherent limitations of being a "solution" committee...