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Through no coincidence, the Soviet theme was also taken up by the French Communist Party daily L'Humanite. The paper lambasted the French media for their alleged anti-Soviet bias and declared that there were "no established facts" and only "inexistent proof [and] uncertain hypotheses" behind the reports of the Bulgarian-Soviet connection. The television networks were singled out for blame because, the Communist newspaper said, they were state-run and thus "public services." The failure to give equal play to Soviet denials of a role in the assassination attempt, L'Humanite piously said, was "serious, serious...
...type. That is fitting enough, perhaps, for a show so smitten with what used to be called society. Nostalgia may waft through these corridors like L'Heure Bleue, but it is based in longing not for a vanished elegance but for trammeled privilege and status cut on the bias. Remembrance of rank past...
...thinke it tis lyke the originale." The fact is that flattery is not a word that can quickly be defined, at least in portraiture. How it is used, what it means, depends on how the sitter feels about himself and how posterity will feel about the sitter. Our own bias, in a post-Freudian age, is toward portraits that show a "truth" about the sitter that the sitter was not willing to admit. But that is not how the portraitists of the 16th, 17th or 18th centuries saw their work...
...Benjamin begins his piece with the timely realization that American Journalism is not "objective"; what he does not clarify, however, is when non-objective came to equal anti-Semitic. Most American journalists suffer from the plight of being American, thus viewing the world from a particular social and cultural bias. This may be a debility when it comes to omniscience, but I think the media's overkill on the Israel-Lebanon issue this summer stemmed more from the American public's fascination with Israel, and to the relatively uncontroversial nature of coverage of Lebanon as compared to the more politically...
...University is concerned, as it claims to be, with eliminating discrimination that can be subtle as well as over it should be just as interested in eliminating such discrimination against women as it is in ridding the campus of bias against racial minority groups. A University which has funds for a Race Relations Foundation should have funds for a women's center...