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Establishing an interdisciplinary concentration would necessitate a radical change in the administration's philosophy concerning Latin American studies, "a development which I don't see happening. Harvard has had a strong reputation as a bastion of Anglo-Saxon history with a bias in European studies," says James Brennan, a Latin American history graduate student...
...decreasing, as would be the case if there were a real and visible tendency toward the universal acceptance of English; and (2) it is altogether understandable and fitting that English not be elected as the international language, not only because of its inherent and ineradicable political and cultural bias, but also because it is complicated grammatically, hopelessly loaded with irregularities, and impossibly unphonetic in its orthography--in short, undesigned for and therefore inappropriate for general cross-cultural usage...
Much of the criticism of press bias comes from the organized and vocal right, but Fritz Mondale has grounds for complaint too. The press rap against him is that he is not exciting enough. At the end of the year, Columnist David Broder of the Washington Post, reviewing some of his own errors and misjudgments, concluded, "But no one, I hope, will deny me my one moment of brilliance." As long ago as January 1983, "I wrote, 'Mondale has the capacity to make the Democratic marathon dull.' Boy, did he ever!" Broder is a fair-minded reporter...
Many of us grew up believing that the First Amendment was the foundation of our Bill of Rights and that if necessary we would fight and die for it. Sadly, the slanders, libels, bias and arrogance that have become the hallmark of much press and television coverage [Dec. 12] force Americans to question that commitment...
...Picassoan acquisitions in Seated Woman, circa 1940 | (the hair from Dora Maar, the breasts and calves from Marie-Thérèse Walter), but the drawing, the rhythm, the sense of interval and structure are already de Kooning's own, and they have a strong 3 classical bias, fixed by a long study of Ingres. (The shoulders of Ingres's women, rising in sublime lunar complacency from their Empire decolletages or, naked, from the Turkish tiles, had much to do with de Kooning's syntax then.) The result was that the very paintings that secured...