Word: bias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Frankel, this is supposed to give judges necessary leeway to fit the punishment to the offender, not merely to the crime. In fact, however, it allows "sentences to be 'individualized' not so much in terms of defendants, but mainly in terms of the wide spectrums of character, bias, neurosis and daily vagary encountered among occupants of the trial bench." For a given defendant, then, his sentence depends less on the demands of justice than upon which judge he draws...
...that man could demonstrate truth only about a world he could measure. The world of spirit was beyond such measurement, a matter of faith and intuition, not truth. Descartes became a self-fulfilling prophet. The spiritual world was left to philosophers and divines, many of whom shared the Cartesian bias that theirs was an ephemeral discipline. The physical world became the domain of Western science, though man sometimes seemed less the master of that world than its mechanic...
...York firms are aiming at the homosexual market, one with a series of nine-day junkets to Isla de Oro, in Panama's San Bias Islands, where the men sleep in hammocks in palm-thatched huts. A magazine aimed at homosexuals is offering a brace of two-week trips to Europe. "It's not a sexual trip," says one of the excursion's sponsors, "but a cultural one, intended for people interested in meeting those with similar interests...
...minority persons or women are included among the serious candidates let alone how many will ultimately be appointed and agree to come. Under these circumstances, I would prefer to rely on procedural safeguards that are designed to insure that promising minority and women candidates are identified and considered without bias. The University has been developing procedures of this sort, and we are refusing to process appointments unless there is evidence that the procedures have been followed...
...butterfly bow ties; and two-tone spectator shoes, all for both sexes. Daytime wear for women relies on little white pleated skirts ending just above the knee, and small cloche hats pulled down to the eyebrows For evening, everything is soft and flowing in chiffon and crepe de Chine, bias cut to drape close to the body, just the thing for a moonlight tango with a gentleman in an Indian silk suit. The fabrics are natural-wool, linens, pure cotton-and difficult to care for, with a tendency to develop the rumpled badge of the thoroughly bred. "A poor...