Word: bias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before it could even begin to function, the all-military junta brought down a storm of protest from civilian rebels fearful of a new military dictatorship. Larrazabal named two civilian members, Top Industrialist Eugenic Mendoza and onetime University Professor Bias Lamberti. To reassure the civilians even further, Larrazabal then named a 13-man Cabinet with only one military member: Air Force Colonel Jesús Maria Castro LeÓn, a leader of the original anti-Pérez Jiménez plot. The civilians and some members of the armed forces were still displeased. Two junta colonels, they protested...
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, professor of History, scored research foundations for what he termed their bias in favor of behaviorial sciences and against history at a December 30 convention of the American Historical Association in New York...
...Under Editor William Conant Church, onetime chief war correspondent for the New York Times, who had served as a captain in the Union Army, the Army and Navy Journal in its first issue lodged a baleful eagle atop Page One, promised that the paper would be devoted without bias to "sound military ideas and to the elevation of the public service." The weekly, which expanded its name to the Army, Navy, Air Force Journal after the Air Force became a separate arm, was willed to Washington's famed Gridiron Club of newsmen in 1949 by Colonel John...
...prejudices-except perhaps the prejudice in favor of the strangely arid, yet emotionally pompous sociologist's view of man. The trouble is that little except diligence seems left of Pundit Lerner once the prejudice is gone. His middle-of-the-road stance leaves him not only free of bias but bereft of viewpoint. The middle of the road is a good place to be hit by the traffic of history, but a poor place to gauge its destination...
March. Seventy-three per cent of the next freshman class (Class of '62) will be graduates of private preparatory schools. The Committee on Admissions will deny any bias. They will announce, "We have nothing against wonks, other things being equal." An enraged Joseph Kennedy (John's father) will confirm reports that he is going to "buy Harvard College for my boys." Rev. Buttrick will urge President Pusey to go gold hunting in South America to strengthen Harvard's financial position. Rev. Buttrick will offer to accompany the President and allow him to use his new gold-divining rod. Ex-Dean...