Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once parents discover that their child is using heroin, inevitably they blame themselves; in such tragedies, families can spend a lifetime unraveling the twisting threads of guilt without ever resolving where it lies. More immediately, however, it is important that parents learn how to recognize the symptoms of addiction (see box above). If they do not, or if they refuse to accept the harsh evidence, the chance of saving their child from an early death or a ruined life can be irretrievably lost. One well-to-do Washington, D.C., father, whose 16-year-old started on heroin...
...abandonments are caused by a convergence of urban ills: crime, shifting populations, economic squeeze and the American propensity to waste. Nearly all of today's abandoned houses are in ghettos or neighborhoods in transition as the white population departs. But it is far too simplistic to blame only the influx of black families for the decay and abandonments. Most slum neighborhoods were near-slums long before their white residents moved away...
...broad perspective. Stanley Hoffman contends that discussion of governance and restructuring obscures the issue at hand, which is the very basis of the university itself. Peter Caws synthesizes a model for a "fair" university, fair both to those inside it and out of it, and places much of the blame for the problems of American education on what he calls a "fourth rate" educational systems at all levels...
...America cannot be responsible for the good behavior of the entire world. But America is responsible, to herself as well as to history, for the world environment in which she lives. If America's environment is unfavorable to the growth of American life, then America has nobody to blame so deeply as she must blame herself...
...when Chambers testified that Alger Hiss had been an espionage agent of Moscow, he hoped to awaken America to the relentless political struggles of the era. The country was not ready for the revelation. What resulted was no intellectual inquiry but a raw political charade of blame and guilt. The Left was deeply discredited. The Right was besmirched and divided by the tac tics of Senator McCarthy. Almost everyone, liberals in particular, heaped abuse on Chambers, who was regarded, at worst, as some sort of a malignant monster; at best, as an informer who had nothing to offer...