Word: biased
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state of the Treasury is equally undecided. Henry Brooke, an economist, has been made Chief Secretary, and it is assumed that he will be responsible for executing modern ideas of economic planning. But as the Economist (which has a strong technocratic bias) lately pointed out, it is difficult to trust either the efficiency or the usefulness of the planning apparatus as now conceived, because authority over it may well be given to an amorphous body of temporary experts rather than to a permanent commission of technicians...
...relevant to this century is the antinomian facet of Gordon's thought, which Leifer rejects as being alien to the Jewish tradition. Maybe that's why I like it (some of my best friends work for Mosaic, don't forget.) The antinomian (existentialist is the current word, I suppose) bias of thinkers like Gordon and Buber clearly do clash with law-centered traditional Judaism. But the absence of an absolute ground for morality in these two writers is not, as Leifer says, evidence that Judaism today lacks vigor. Rather, it is a token that Gordon and Buber are groping...
Prizer said yesterday that he scheduled Birth of a Nation during the summer without ever seeing it, and that he was unaware of its anti-Negro bias at the time. He said he selected the film because it is one of the most talked about of all motion pictures, and because its technical innovations are still used today...
Trouble in Russia. Charges of Communist inefficiency by Western observers and political refugees are open to the suspicion of bias. But the Communists themselves make similar complaints...
Indeed, I think I can accuse the CRIMSON correctly of exhibiting an overwhelming bias--which is surely not far short of ridiculous. It seems to me a ridiculous "policy" for the major guide of many Harvard student to Boston's entertainment to categorically WANT to find fault with EVERY American film...