Word: blame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whir of wheelchair motors and chants of "We want access" filled the air last week, as some 200 disabled demonstrators from across the U.S. picketed the annual convention of the American Public Transit Association in San Francisco. The protesters blame association members for engineering the repeal of a 1979 federal mandate that required wheelchair lifts on all new buses and rail systems as well as the phased modification of existing systems...
...teasing and aggressive behavior. Virtually all her respondents (92%) complained that men communicate with women in language that indicates "condescending, judgmental attitudes." Women are "caught between an anger that makes them want to leave and a longing to create love," charges the 44-year-old author. Who is to blame? No question there. "It's not us. It's men's attitudes toward women that are causing the problem," Hite told TIME last week...
While some of Hite's women are more moderate, even conciliatory, the emphasis on the strident seems off-key to many observers. Grace Pierce, 31, a Houston architect, objects to Hite's portrayal of women as "total victims." Says she: "I don't buy that." Women used to blame themselves for everything, observes Eileen O'Grady, 31, a business writer at the Houston Post. "Now we are saying, 'It's his fault,' and that's just...
...director of the Expository Writing Program, in a 21-page report released yesterday, said Harvard undergraduates suffer from poor writing and analytical skills and the College bears some of the blame...
...said in an interview that Bloom's book was part of a larger trend toward blaming higher education for national ills. "America has a peculiar penchant--when people are troubled by the way society is going, they blame education," he said...