Word: biased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...usual when dealing with the impetuous and the headstrong, Eliot and Snow maintain a judicious tolerance toward Charles and his friends. Only the plot betrays an unspoken elders' bias: it is you people who make the messes that we people have to tidy up. Young Charles sees that there are other, better ways to effect change and takes off to the Middle East to acquire influence-on-the-quick. Another bright learner in the old Snow power game? Snow is ambiguous, and the ending is about as inconclusive as Snow's ten earlier endings...
...brave young prosecutor, whose real-life name is Christos Sartzetakis, had been elevated to a judgeship because of his work in the case. In 1968, the colonels dismissed him from the bench, along with 29 other judges, for "political bias and failure to uphold the prestige of the judiciary." When Lambrakis was killed in Salonica, another deputy, George Tsarouhas, was brutally beaten. In 1968, Tsarouhas was arrested by the junta for subversive activities. On the way to police headquarters in Salonica, he died. According to the official police report, he had suffered a "heart attack...
...Harvard and ignore the working people around them, not just as people who were a key force in changing society, but as people with any brains at all. It is on this rather simple issue, relatively unrelated to the war in Vietnam, that the University's class bias is most apparent. Unfortunately for the University, many students did not buy the line they were offering, and for two days students engaged in a militant picket line in support of those workers who wanted a strike. For participating in these picket lines, many students were disciplined, some suspended, and four...
...Roman Bias. Most galling to the authors is the Roman legal bias in the laws, which places more regard on the form than on the content of the marriage: on the marriage rite itself, on the intent of the partners at the moment of marriage and on the physical consummation of the union, rather than on any evidence of spiritual growth in what is held up as a spiritual bond. Impotence, for instance-either total or relative to the other partner-invalidates a marriage. So does lack of free consent by one or both parties (as in a "shotgun wedding...
...bias of an anti-Neophiliac has driven Booker to underrate some genuine and rather remarkable cultural achievements. But that same bias has given him the insight to diagnose a fever behind the vitality of England during the past decade and a half...