Word: bias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your story . . . was read with interest, despite your obvious bias in favor of the Negro race ... We are far truer friends to the Negro than the Yankee zealots who seek to cram down our throats a principle we will never accept . . . The end of segregation can only result in a mongrel race, as time goes by. Thank God, the blood strain of the South is the purest in the world...
...political bias did not allow that degree of generosity. She was in New York less than two weeks when she observed: "The very resemblance of democracy was fading here from day to day." After almost three months in the U.S., however, she wrote: "Respect for the human being and the principles that guarantee his rights is solidly anchored in the hearts of the citizens. With them, one finds a truly democratic atmosphere, and it is this which makes the country so attractive at first sight." She could also rise to such shaky heights of enthusiasm as, "One of the virtues...
...Rhine reproaches scientists in general and psychologists in particular for their refusal, by & large, to accept the evidence of their extrasenses. He compares them with those who refused to look through Galileo's telescope. He assails the materialist bias of the times for creating a climate hostile to his theories, though he admits that he cannot yet "prove" them by conventional standards...
There is little "conscious bias or distortion in the coverage of foreign news," says I.P.I. "But there is distortion that comes from the absence of interpretation...
...Italy, reports the New York Times Rome Bureau Chief Arnaldo Cortesi, the press "is remarkable in that there is not a single Italian newspaper that has an anti-American bias," except Communist and Fascist papers. But the "sins of omission" are so great that an Italian who reads largely feature stories "would inevitably reach the conclusion that everyday life in the United States is centered on beauty contests, divorce and the scandals of cafe society...