Word: biased
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result has been a growing resentment towards the United States on the part of foreign government who feel that America is excluding their nationals. On the opposite page of today's paper there is a survey of some of the shortcomings in U.S. immigration practice, including examples of the bias in the present quota system based on national origins and the absence of a uniform right of review and appeal...
...developing into a Donnybrook," the former counsel to the Kefauver Committee continued. "You're not going to get anywhere with endless questions on bias and motive. And that's what's happening here...
Feeneyism is a much discussed topic. Leonard J. Feeney is a constant reminder of what Harvard as a whole never became and of what religious bias can do to a man and his followers living at war with society. His only influence today is in providing the University community with a warning and with something about which to laugh grimly...
Some of the most exciting novels about American industry have been written by those who liked it least. In the pages of Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser or Upton Sinclair, industry is a jungle inferno of grab and stab. But behind the social bias is the magnetic pull of wheat, or rail roads, or oil, and what it means to work with and around the sources of American industrial power. Author Victor White has put some of this magnetism without the bias into Peter Domanig in America. Where he falls short of the earlier models is in making his hero...
...amendment, its damnation extends to the point of accusations of violation of the entire Bill of Rights. This, in a nutshell, is the opinion of the Harvard CRIMSON; although succeeding as an instrument of influence, it fails well as an instrument of Harvard's motto, "Veritas." The extreme bias of its presentation, regardless of its content, has, I regret, only alienated a few; it intrigues most. The chief device employed by the CRIMSON to further its causes is the non-recognition of fair criticism, as well as of letters to the editors, unless they coincide with the doctrines of CRIMSONism...