Word: biased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...debut, condolences again to the great Anne Bancroft. There has been, recently, a spate of movies about women -Alice Doesn 't Live Here Anymore, The Stepford Wives, A Woman Under the Influence-which has led to the suggestion that at last the American cinema is losing its masculine bias, that now there are lots of good roles for women and lots of good actresses to play them. Well, the actresses may be there, but the parts are not. Why would Anne Bancroft be in this movie otherwise...
True to the academic traditions from which its members were drawn, the Strauch Committee did not seriously deliberate any proposals that would offer immediate solutions to the College's 2.5 to 1 admissions bias in favor...
...perhaps nothing can be done about class bias in selection doctors given the present patrician control of the medical community, what then...
...American Jews perform for Israel, apart from collecting money, is to try to influence American opinion and policy in ways favorable to Israel. So effective do they seem at this that sooner or later every U.S. visitor to Arab lands will be asked to admit that the pro-Israel bias of U.S. policy is surely the work of the mysteriously omnipotent and sinister American Jewish lobby...
...pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man . . . who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment." That caricature of the desiccated plant-eater still pervades the English-speaking world. The very language is meaty with bias. Imagine a Beaneater martini, a fatted kale, a yam actor, a string of Turnip 'n' Brew restaurants...