Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...industry is apparently fed up with taking the blame in silence for a host of environmental problems. Last week spokesmen for two of the most blamed industries talked back...
From the first, kids treated Sesame Street like the yellow brick road. Its heavy stress of cooperation over competition, its amalgam of the wholly familiar and the totally exotic were irresistible. It was only grownups who expressed doubts. And who could blame them? For openers, the Street looks as if a toy truck had overturned in Harlem. There is no Disneyesque nostalgia for the inaccessible past. The place is in the unavoidable present; the clothing of the cast is well worn, the umber colors and grit of inner-city life are vital components of the show. Some other main ingredients...
...They pussyfoot around all summer, then come here and expect to get into shape under the naked eye of the human coach, then blame him for their failures," he began in his Irish brogue. "John Yovicsin is as fine a coach as any," he added. "It's the players themselves that are to blame. They're a bunch of pussyfooters...
...have your vote. You have faith in this great country. Use that vote and that faith to help this Administration turn the nation away from hatred, chaos and division, away from fixing blame for problems and toward solving them...
UNFORTUNATELY, Mr. Nixon is not one to admit readily his own shortcomings. He will sit back and pout for a while, decide he was right all along, and blame any Republican setbacks on failure to present the message strongly enough. Such a typical five-year-old's reaction to setbacks is not out of the realm of possibility for our President. The man who tearfully blamed his 1962 defeat on the media can be expected to do the same in 1970. From him, we can expect increased attacks on the media, more attempts at Administration-imposed censorship, and tighter government...