Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Blame for it all I'm afraid has to go to Alan Franken who wrote, directed and acts in the show (thus winning himself this week's Junior League Orson Welles Award). Nixon! lacks both the anger and vulgarity that is needed to make this kind of satirical statement compelling. Finally dissolving as it does into a trumped-up finale of song and dance, Nixon! is out to prove nothing but the cleverness of its participants. In the final analysis, it's as much an in-house entertainment as any of those other reviews which bob Hope periodically presents before...
Theories of genetic inferiority of races, sexes, or classes, facilitate and justify shifting the burden of the present economic crises onto those who are already the most oppressed. They place the blame for unemployment on its victims, instead of on its beneficiaries. Such theories attack the legitimate aspirations of oppressed people for a decent life...
...year ago for rioting, arson and other crimes supposedly committed just before the campus shootings of May 4, 1970. On that day, four students were killed and ten wounded by National Guard gunfire. The same grand jury that handed down the indictments exonerated the National Guardsmen of any blame for the deaths. Last week a trial jury of eight men and four women visited the campus to examine the site of the slayings. TIME Correspondent William Friedman also looked in on the haunted campus to measure its mood a year and a half after the killings. His report...
...blame can be placed on the actors. Langmuir's direction is uncertain, and sometimes downright sloppy. His blocking, especially when there are more than a few people on stage, is awkward, and often destroys the fragile spell of Chekhov's language. He realizes that the lack of action in a Chekhov play can become oppressive, so he keeps his actors moving, but they move aimlessly and unnecessarily, and simply make us feel uncomfortable...
What has happened in the Church in the past decade to cause this dissatisfaction? Did aggiornamen to fail? If so, who or what is to blame...