Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loss to Cornell was inexcusable. So was the loss to Brown, the Bruins' only Ivy victory last Fall. And much of the blame fell upon the Harvard offensive system, and its founder, coach John Yovicsin. For Yovicsin still clung to the off-tackle, end sweep, halfback option cycle that had brought the Crimson ten consecutive winning seasons and a share of three Ivy titles. The system is viable, provided you have material than can overpower the opposition. If you don't, the opposition needs only to plug the middle or cover the ends at the appropriate downs, and you lose...
...certainly was not without blame. He was, and remains in my view, a shameful, cynical politician who discovered how to play skillfully on peoples' emotions for his own gain. But it is much too facile to dismiss the evils and anguish that wracked campuses and country at that time by simply naming him as scapegoat and letting the rest of society off scot-free...
...GREAT and utterly self-hypnotic was the hysteria that tracing the blame for it could only have occurred in retrospect. Until the extension of the Vietnamese conflict in the late '60's, there did not exist a single, prolonged and potentially divisive use of American overseas military power that might have spurred a serious controversy within the Center about the ramifications of American policy. The early period was one in which the fundamental goals of that policy, as opposed to the tactical wisdom of this or that particular intervention, went largely unquestioned...
Distortion, misrepresentation, accusation and now increasingly a tendency toward the imposition of unitary views. And this within universities. How have we come to such a pass? It is hard to say, but I suppose many of us must share in the blame: Those of us in positions to have moved more rapidly than we have to correct obvious abuses and shortcomings which have festered too long among us. Those responsible for instruction too long reluctant to reexamine traditional offerings and teaching methods, too little ready, not to abandon, but to enliven courses which have ceased to speak to the condition...
...when you find your daughter huddled in the back of her bedroom closet, taking a troublesome trip on LSD? Or shacked up in the East Village with a Hell's Angels cokehead? Well, if you believe Eli Wallach and Julie Harris in The People Next Door, you blame older brother. You get mad at little sister. You get mad at the neighbors and at each other. And all the time you yell, yell, yell. In every way, The People Next Door is an anachronism, a "naturalistic" play like those prevalent in the 1950s. It ran on TV two years...