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Poland is scarcely more convincing as history than it is as fiction. Oversimplifications and omissions abound. Clearly, the research received from the local authorities suffers from the twin failings of modern Polish historiography: Communist rewriting of history and nationalist bias. Michener all but ignores the division of Poland between Stalin and Hitler in 1939. And he does not mention the Nazi slaughter of Polish underground forces and civilians during the 1944 Warsaw uprising, as the Red Army stood by across the river from the capital...
This political bias is partly inherent in the book's structure. It begins and ends in 1981 when Polish farmers attempt to organize a union. The fictional organizers meet with stiff opposition from Polish communist leaders and more obliquely from Soviet officials. Sandwiched between these opening and closing chapters are flashbacks to earlier Polish history. The reader is supposed to reach the concluding chapter with an even greater sympathy for the David of the situation, but Michener forces the sentiment...
Isaac first filed suit against the University in 1980, after the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled that Harvard had discriminated against him when it denied him tenure. After the first judge to hear the case disqualified himself because of possible bias, the dispute went to Skinner...
...regularly read most of the West German dailies and periodicals you perceive as anti-American [Aug. 29]. Their criticism of American policies, institutions and attitudes is hardly different from what I read in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek and, yes, TIME. Is there, then, anti-American bias in a large segment of the American press? Or are the German media being asked to confine their criticism to their own affairs and those of the Soviet bloc? I see no such noble restraint in dealing with West Germany's imperfections on the part of most U.S. newspapers...
There is clearly a class bias against the poor in the reporting of child-abuse cases. Doctors, teachers and police are less likely to accuse affluent families of beating or molesting their children even when the evidence is clear. Clinics and social-welfare agencies deal more frequently with the poor. Whether actual abuse occurs more often among poor families is not certain. A correlation between increases in unemployment rates and rises in physical child-abuse reports, however, suggests that stress over money matters tends to make parents lose their tempers more readily when a child cries too long...