Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case of disliking things, to blame 'em either on the universe or on herself. The former course is in some religions considered presumptuous...
...prisons and streets of our country are full of replacements adequate in every respect, from snub-nose revolvers to a pseudopolitical doctrine, to exculpate their licentiousness and shift the blame to where it does not belong...
...dispassionate witnesses point out that Attica is neither the best nor the worst of New York State's prisons. In fact, its prisoners have been successful in winning some improvements in their conditions-leading some Attica townspeople to complain that the "permissiveness" of the prison management was to blame for the rebellion. Yet most of the few prisoner gains were made through courts to change the policies of prison officials. In 1966, a federal court ordered officials to formulate rules that would allow Black Muslims to practice their faith. Attica prisoners conducted a non-violent sitdown strike last year...
...becomes a priestly celebrant by receiving various sacred vestments-just as the church itself gradually acquired more and more trappings of ritual. Eventually, when he attempts to offer the mob Holy Communion, the symbolic body and blood of Christ, they cry out, "Dona nobis pacem [Give us peace]!" and blame God because man has not abolished war on earth: "Give us peace that we don't keep breaking...
Ever since Bela Lugosi went to bat in Dracula, the vampire has been a favorite of American horror-movie cultists. But even they will find little nourishment in Let's Scare Jessica to Death. Technology is partly to blame. Once electric lights are substituted for candles, the ghosts no longer hold sway; a car is no proper substitute for the creaky carriage and pair. The plot, however, is a lineal descendant of the Bram Stoker original...